Reviews tagging 'Schizophrenia/Psychosis '

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

35 reviews

lokes's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Murder, Mental illness, Child death, and Gaslighting

lammiolivia's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

sarah1026's review

adventurous emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

This book was very confusing. There were many times where it just seemed like the book was lying to me, which makes sense I guess with the title. It was also never clear which timeline we were currently in. The plot twist that I had heard was great was pretty good, the book did get better at the end. <Spoiler> the plot twist was very good. It had me rather shocked, and I liked how we came to realize it with the main character. I am still rather confused on how it worked. How she was interacting with the characters, even kissing them, when they were dead. I also very much did not enjoy the addition of the dogs dying and the description of them waiting for help. I do wish I had heard about that before reading, because it was really rough to read. I also still do not know how she ended up naked in the water. <Spoiler> 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Alcohol, Animal death, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Medical content, Torture, Cursing, Alcoholism, Self harm, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

the_escapist's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, and Grief

Moderate: Death, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Dementia, Classism, Animal death, and Alcohol

margesyarf's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Dementia, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Child death, Mental illness, Murder, Abandonment, Addiction, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

marisa_n's review

dark reflective relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Child death, Classism, Racism, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

clara_2021's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

THIS BOOK IS NOT MIDDLE GRADE!!! It is maybe 13 and but I would say 14 is youngest. It is HEAVY and deep. It will leave you numb, it throws you through loops, and it is NOT lighthearted. Yet,  this is still a pretty amazing book, but you have been warned.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Child death, Cursing, Alcoholism, Grief, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, and Dysphoria

Minor: Abandonment, Racism, and Rape

minamina's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

*nervously laughed* what an ending. I couldn’t really count what TWs I should add, because a slow, misleading start, leads to an heartbreaking (and maybe a little predictable) and twisty end. 
As a reader you directly focus on Cadence thoughts, being torn apart, which makes the writing style at first a little distracting/bricky, but is totally understandable—because that’s how Cadence injured mind works. 
We follow her through every emotion, and even in this fast paced novel, it was perfectly enough to cope with—until the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Addiction, and Racism

milliiegrace's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

thesawyerbean's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Damn, what a story. A very intoxicating tale, filled with intrigue and deceit with an explosive climax. 
I however did not like the writing style very much - it was disjointed which made reading it feel quite awkward.
Otherwise, a must read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, and Animal death