Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Le Dieu des Bois by Liz Moore

261 reviews

cyrenaaaaa's review against another edition

3.0

dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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every so often I pick up a popular crime thriller just to see if I might like them. I never do. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Confinement, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Murder, Colonisation

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Lesbophobia

lokit5083's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Physical abuse, Grief

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

cheypreston's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief

Moderate: Drug use

jennahartling's review against another edition

3.5

mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Mental illness, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder

michellem92's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Grief, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol

Moderate: Child death, Toxic relationship

Minor: Rape, Toxic relationship, Blood, Pregnancy

jft's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I am trying to read more mystery this, and this book was on my to read list. I enjoyed. I really like stories that have multiple points of views and are multifaceted, such as this one. The mystery and the reveal was not super shocking. I kind of expected it but dynamic of different socioeconomic classes of people kept me engaged 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Murder, Classism

Moderate: Body shaming, Infidelity, Blood, Dementia

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Lesbophobia

sopheegaines's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book is like that episode of Kim Possible where she goes to Camp Wannaweep and that bully is a fish monster. And by that I mean that it happens at a camp and crazy sh**t happens 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship

Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Sexual harassment

rachel_garris's review against another edition

3.5

mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I wanted to love this so bad. It started off really strong, but the slow pace and excessive detail became a drag on the story. Like 90% of the men are HORRIBLE and the women are mostly great but not given enough space and time to breathe and be fleshed out. For how long this book is the characters were kind of flat. I disliked that several of the character storylines towards the end start to resolve themselves off page and they’re reflected on later by a different character. 

I listened to the audiobook and it is incredibly difficult to keep track of all of the different POV‘s and all of the different timelines. I’m sure it’s easier in a physical copy but I had to look up a character sheet at 15% in because it was confusing to track. So I would say unless you’re up to the task a physical copy is better. 

It’s a book that says a lot when 1/3 of the time it doesn’t need to say anything at all. While I did not predict the ending exactly, it was really obvious to me after 20% in where the author is trying to lead you is not where the story is headed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

sta_sha's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Classism

karly_ackley's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional mysterious sad 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness

Minor: Adult/minor relationship