Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

3 reviews

am4man's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Gore, Blood, Murder, Torture, Stalking, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Pedophilia

sexualedward's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Gore, Violence, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Kidnapping, Addiction, Cursing, and Gun violence

Minor: Alcohol

c_dmckinney's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This book was adapted very well as the TV series Dexter. Some of it was adapted line by line

except of course for what happened with Laguerta and Deb finding out

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Toxic relationship, Torture, Stalking, Racism, Pedophilia, Murder, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, and Gaslighting