Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough

15 reviews

smileyjayna's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Alcohol, Confinement, Drug use, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Dysphoria, Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Murder, Death, Abandonment, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Stalking, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Grief, Alcoholism, Drug use, Gaslighting, Animal cruelty, Suicide, Animal death, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Abandonment, and Child death

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

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

3.5

I thought this was interesting, and I'm excited to see the TV series version of it. Same comment that I've made about Ms. Pinborough before -

it just doesn't make a tremendous amount of sense to throw in supernatural elements into a very real-world story. It almost feels like not incredibly well-thought-out writing? Like there was no way to wrap the plot up in this world, so it has to enter the next?

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Alcohol, Animal death, Bullying, Forced institutionalization, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Drug use, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Gaslighting, Classism, Grief, and Gun violence

sapphirestorm's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Stalking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Animal cruelty, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Pregnancy, Abortion, Infidelity, Addiction, Cursing, Death, Body shaming, Death of parent, Drug use, Suicide attempt, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death

thecatsmum's review

dark medium-paced

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

2.75

After coincidentally running into and snogging the man who turns out to be her new boss, single mother Louise has an affair with him, and begins an unlikely friendship with his wife. This story is told mostly in alternating Louise and Adele (the wife) POV chapters as the story unfolds.

Honestly, I think it would have been a better book if it was mostly told from Louise's POV for the first half to three quarters of the book or if Pinborough handled Adele's POV chapters better. It felt like the story lost part of its momentum by allowing the reader to know too much too soon.

A bit into the book I realised I had seen the miniseries that was based on the book a few years ago, and I wasn't impressed by the ending then, and I guess I wasn't now. So, despite the prose feeling decent, there were too many problems for me to rate this higher.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Murder, Death of parent, Death, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Suicide, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Classism, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Ableism, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Forced institutionalization

hopevigilshuck's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Confinement, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Bullying, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Suicide attempt

alisonfaith426's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Infidelity, Toxic friendship, Animal death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual content, Body shaming, Death, Stalking, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Self harm, and Classism

Minor: Pregnancy and Confinement

ssarahbbeth's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, and Infidelity

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Sexual content, Addiction, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Animal death, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Abortion

brookey8888's review

dark mysterious medium-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

3.25

Honestly this was entertaining but it was also kind of boring at the same time. Nothing thrilling really happened so I kept wondering like what was gonna happen and what was the point. But the ending I did not see coming at all and I was shocked. I don’t know if I necessarily like it but I didn’t see it coming so there’s that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Death, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Abortion, Murder, and Stalking

yana_bee's review

dark sad

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

It’s an unpleasant and upsetting book about a terrible person preying on others, with a psychological thriller plot mechanism. I would strongly recommend skipping this book, even if it’s your only option on a long flight. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Forced institutionalization, Suicide, Stalking, and Mental illness

amandalorianxo's review against another edition

dark tense slow-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

3.0

This book had me up until 3/4 of the way. The ending did make me go wtf but not in a pleasing way. It’s too long and slow for me to have been pysched for the ending(I actually felt relieved that it was done.) Louise annoyed me and of course none of them are reliable so believing any of them is  far fetched. I recommend the audio if you want to get through this at a faster pace. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Addiction, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Fire/Fire injury