Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Finna, by Nino Cipri

11 reviews

shadowspinner's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia

Minor: Racism

tangleroot_eli's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

What a wild ride! An inspiring read for anyone who's ever worked retail.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Transphobia, Blood, and Medical content

neonthenerd's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Mental illness, Ableism, Gaslighting, Deadnaming, Transphobia, and Violence

rug's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Transphobia

annoyedhumanoid's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful reflective 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Blood

Moderate: Injury/injury detail, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Alcohol, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Sexual content, Transphobia, and War

emsnovelidea's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful reflective 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? Yes

A queer, anti-capitalist, sci-fi adventure that spans the big-box furniture store multiverse. When an unsuspecting granny wanders through a portal to another dimension, two minimum-wage workers are sent to track her down, forced to deal with carnivorous furniture, identical retail zombies...and the fact that they just broke up a week ago. This was a really fun, sweet journey grounded in the very relatable experience of heartache.
The premise actually reminded me a bit of Infinity Train, which is a great animated TV show.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Racism and Transphobia

pastelkerstin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cultural appropriation, Injury/injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Medical content

Minor: Body horror

Deep water, misgendering

aardwyrm's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

 Sweet, soft, and trippy, with a core of the very real pain that comes of living in a stupid world as a flawed person. Also there are hive mind WASP zombies. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Transphobia

spiritedfaraway's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective 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? Yes

4.0

Every world has its monsters.

Okay, that? That was super fun. I’m going to be diving into the second book as soon as I get my grubby little hands on it.

Finna follows two recently broken-up exes as they have to travel through the multiverse to find an elderly grandmother, who slipped through a wormhole while exploring an IKEA-like store. I feel like giving any more away would be spoiling, but I found this short novella about personal growth, retail hell, and monsters very entertaining and thought-provoking. Plus, it's queer.

LitenVärld accepts no responsibility or liability for any losses or injuries that wormholes incur, since they fall under the Act of God clauses on our employee insurance.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, Grief, Gore, Death, Cursing, Blood, Medical content, and Mental illness

Misgendering

kylieqrada's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

3.5

3.5 ⭐s. A whimsical little romp through a wormhole inside an Ikea-like chain store that manages to be both amazingly anti-capitalist and incredibly diverse while also feeling super homey and comforting. I'll definitely be picking up more from this author.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, Medical content, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Deadnaming