Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes

6 reviews

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Much better than You. Best parts for me were Forty’s monologues. Too many holes, though, to bump up to a four.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Blood, Alcohol, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Car accident, Grief, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Torture, Abandonment, Animal death, Child death, Drug abuse, Confinement, Violence, Pregnancy, and Racial slurs

te_ss_i's review against another edition

dark tense fast-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Car accident, Death, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Animal death, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-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

As always, Joe is fucking batshit. I like that there are deviations from the show in the book — it helps keep it interesting. Also interesting is Joe’s reasoning/logic skill. I am fascinated yet terrified by his brain. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Vomit, Violence, Terminal illness, Stalking, Sexism, Murder, Car accident, Toxic friendship, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Grief, Gaslighting, Fatphobia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Confinement, Abandonment, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Cancer, Blood, Suicide, Sexual content, Mental illness, Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Death, and Classism

eureadthis's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-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: Drug use, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Violence, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Sexism

aeai's review against another edition

dark sad tense

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

1.0

Honestly, just watch the series instead. They had to add so much plot and character development in the series, not to mention depth to the female characters and just any representation of non-white characters... It's not even funny. Also (still) bothered by the misogynistic voice of the narrator, I really don't like internalizing this toxic stuff by reading it. Having seen the second season of YOU, I powered through in hopes of getting to any kind of interesting turning point, but I ended up very disappointed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence

auteaandtales's review against another edition

dark funny tense slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Murder, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship