Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Watchmen by Alan Moore

22 reviews

parenthesis_enjoyer's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Blood, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual assault and Rape

Minor: Homophobia, Cultural appropriation, and Racism

amelierawr's review

dark reflective

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

5.0

hard to explain, but it's a masterpiece. The dialogue is amazing and Doctor Manhattan's chapter is one of my all time favorites.
The heavy grief and trauma really gets to you.

For the love of god, before reading look at the damn content warnings!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Mental illness, Rape, Hate crime, Misogyny, Genocide, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Gaslighting, Racism, Animal death, and Gun violence

Minor: War, Homophobia, and Vomit

thehobbitbarbie's review

challenging dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Cancer, Police brutality, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Terminal illness, War, Cursing, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Animal death, and Gore

Moderate: Addiction and Lesbophobia

abominablebas's review

dark funny tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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rip rorschach. rot in hell

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Blood, Cancer, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Cursing, Medical content, Mental illness, Rape, Misogyny, Murder, and Police brutality

its watchmen. everything bad happens

amelia22's review

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gore, Murder, War, Mental illness, Violence, Sexual violence, and Rape

Moderate: Homophobia and Adult/minor relationship

kaypringle's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.75

This book truly left me speechless. Moore and Gibbons truly did an amazing job on blowing my mind in terms of the lenses of viewing humanity and life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Mental illness, Racism, and Rape

noahhare's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Violence, Rape, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, Gun violence, Gore, Genocide, Emotional abuse, and Death

Moderate: Blood, Cursing, Death, Violence, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Abortion, Body shaming, Cancer, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, and War

urfavpunk's review

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, and Vomit

nojerama's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Try to read it in one sitting if possible, my experience was very scattered and therefore I lost a lot of the effect so don’t do what I did. Still an excellent book and a good example of how to write asshole characters who you can still (kinda) root for. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

This is 18+ for a reason. Do not give this to a kid. I can’t have that on my conscience

boy_topics's review

dark slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I did not enjoy this book. It has aged poorly in a disturbing way (as in it rings too true as something that could've been written by a strange section of humanity in our present moment). It is not a pleasant read and the ending is intensely dissatisfying. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Antisemitism, Body horror, Blood, Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, and Xenophobia