Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Silvered Serpents by Roshani Chokshi

2 reviews

tangleroot_eli's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

OK, now we're getting somewhere!

(Although, could anyone else use less of Severin and Laila's tortured romance? No? Just me? Sheesh, I'm such a cynic.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation and Grief

Moderate: Antisemitism, Body horror, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Infertility, Mental illness, Hate crime, Suicide, and Torture

Mild: Saneism

alizam's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

On a technical level, this book is very good. However, I was not in a headspace to read it with the love it deserves, because of triggering topics contained within the book itself.

Also, I still don't really get why Tristan was murdering birds.

It's not so much the book's fault as it is my own fault. I had no idea going in that the book was going to be about... the things it was about, nor that I would be triggered. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Antisemitism, Body horror, Child abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Terminal illness, Death, and Cursing