Reviews tagging 'Schizophrenia/Psychosis '

Lights Out by Navessa Allen

23 reviews

vegav2025's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

silverhill's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional funny 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Blood, Medical content, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Gore, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Mental illness, Rape, Vomit, Grief, Cannibalism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Classism

taryn_g's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Rape, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Grief, Cannibalism, Classism

caitlin_lewis's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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My first time reading such a book. A definite page turner that had me gasping, laughing, and happy to spend time with the characters. A LOT of dark content when it comes to childhood trauma and past/present serial killings. Also…very sexy. Looking forward to reading the next book when it comes out!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

mrs_cbell's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Rape, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma

Minor: Child abuse, Violence

lakea's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark funny lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cannibalism, Death of parent

samara_surface's review against another edition

4.0

dark funny tense

Loveable characters: Yes

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As Dark, Stalker Rom-Coms go, this was 😮😂🥹

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Car accident, Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma

Minor: Body horror, Gore, Rape, Mass/school shootings, Cannibalism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

eveenala's review against another edition

4.5

dark funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I swear to god I started reading this as a joke. I was convinced it was going to be booktok trash like

Haunting Adeline or Colleen Hoover

and I could laugh with my friends about how bad it is. 
But then I actually liked it.
Is it ridiculous? As ridiculous as any other stalker romance. You have 2 characters engineered to be in a masked stalker romance that tries to keep the power imbalance to a minimum. You have a hot stalker who is an expert hacker and his prey who does her best to double as a strong feminist icon as a nurse with expert self defense training. It’s fun. It’s sexy. Their bickering is hilarious in a meme sort of way. And maybe some of you will learn new kinks along with the characters. 
The book doesnt take itself seriously and I love that for us. 
So if you want a deep, heavy intellectual romance, you can skip this one. 
But if you want to read a deeply unserious romance about a stalker with daddy issues and an over the top badass nurse who is way too burned out to enjoy vanilla sex, enjoy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Stalking, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Vomit, Trafficking, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail

shellballenger's review against another edition

3.0

dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Type of read: Commuter Read.

What made me pick it up: BookTok made me do it.

Overall rating: If you're looking for a smutty book that's a fairly quick read and feels a little disjointed but still has a semblance of a storyline, 'Lights Out' is for you. I got about halfway through the book before I was like, ok, where the heck is this going to go? There is no substance. Then, in the last half

, where you meet the mob part of her family and go through that whole Brad scenario

, you get a bit more storyline and substance, but it seems a bit forced. I wish it would have somehow been introduced at the beginning of the book. I think it would have made everything flow a bit better, or at least make more sense long term. But let's be honest, I didn't read 'Lights Out' for the storyline. 😂 I wasn't a huge fan of the mommy/daddy vibes that the FMC and the MMC had throughout the book, especially when they brought the cat into it. But that's more personal preference. It's not the best smut I've read, but it's far from the worst, overall, not mad.

Also, Jacob Morgan could read me the back of a soup can and I'd be all ears.

Reader's Note: Allen does a wonderful job of putting all the trigger warnings right at the front of the book (appreciated), I'm going to copy what they had on their website so I don't leave anything out: sexually explicit discussion and scenes, alcohol consumption, mention of (off-page) rape, mention of past domestic abuse, memories of experienced child abuse, medical content, blood and gore (in a hospital setting), discussion of mental health, mention of serial killers and their crimes, limited description of a mass shooting, stalking, invasion of privacy, home invasion, hidden cameras, hacking, theft, mention of unintentional cannibalism (remembered), death, desecration of a body, car accident (remembered), description of violent death (remembered), death of a parent, breath play, knife play, gun play, fear play, primal play, and mask play.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Cannibalism, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

readbykatherine's review against another edition

3.75

funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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A woman willing dates her stalker and then gets upset when he does unhinged shit. What the hell did you expect?!

Jacob Morgan narrating as Josh is what made this book for me. His delivery is hilarious and made Josh my favorite of the two main characters; especially when it came to his reactions with Fred.

Ally's connections to her estranged mafia family was wasted potential and was just used to clear Josh of murder. I wish Ally was just as unhinged as Josh (imagine if she was a mafia heiress), because without him, Ally is pretty boring.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Medical content, Stalking

Moderate: Animal death, Violence, Vomit, Stalking, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Child abuse, Rape, Sexism, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Car accident