Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Things We Left Behind by Lucy Score

4 reviews

cutepatzie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad 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

5.0

This book will show how hard is to break the circle of abuse. And how sometimes things can get complicated. And how grief is so hard. How can completely change the way we look at the world. And how two broken people either will collect them fully together or will completely destroyed more. This I think the best on from the entired series. And even some of the things I did not like like the sorry of women being in jail. But tat not change my opinion how much I like Sloan and Lucifer together. Great book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Death of parent, Death, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Murder, Physical abuse, Grief, Police brutality, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Mental illness, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Cancer, Infertility, and Terminal illness

edey_books's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

This book wasn’t AS good as the others in this series, in my opinion. The MMC is rather toxic and while he makes progress, it feels like it’s at the sacrifice of the plot and mystery. Still a good read, and wraps up the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Death of parent and Violence

reader1657's review against another edition

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Blood, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexism, Cancer, Cursing, Bullying, Child abuse, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, and Abandonment

lizzie_b99's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

I haven't read the second title in the Knockemout series, but I definitely preferred this one to the first novel. Given their extensive history together, Sloane and Lucian's relationship seemed much more believable to me than Naomi's and Knox's (not that I don't love them, I do, the ending just seemed a bit fast given the time frame). I love Sloane/Lucian's banter and chemistry, and damn is this book steamy! I would have liked the epilogues to be a little more drawn out

so that we could see a bit more of the life Sloane/Lucian build together. It felt a little rushed, like we got the precis of the main events in everyone's lives before the series was drawn to a close. Given the jump in time and the new characters who are introduced, the extended epilogue could have been a bit longer.

I do wish Score would expand upon Jeremiah and Stef's relationship and Maeve and

Kurt's

. I think these could potentially be turned into their own novels, which would add to the diversity of the series since as is it focuses on the relationships of straight white people. Maybe Score felt like those weren't her stories to tell, but I would've liked to see more from those characters.

My main critique is that the ending seemed a bit fast. I expected the final confrontations with Hugo to be a bit more drawn out. Some of the writing in this section leaned a little too heavily on tropes/stereotypical bad guy vs good guy dialogue than I'd like. Also, although the novel frames it in a cutesy, proof of love sort of way, Lucian's refusal to leave Sloane alone (despite her numerous objections) after the library fire made me uncomfortable. We're supposed to root for him because it's a romance novel, but if anyone acted like Lucian did in real life we'd call them a stalker and a danger to the person they "loved". I wish the other characters objected more to Lucian's behaviour at this point because refusing to give a person the space they ask for is not an expression of love.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Mental illness, and Grief

Moderate: Cancer, Gun violence, Alcohol, Death of parent, Terminal illness, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Pregnancy and Alcoholism