Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Twisted Love by Ana Huang

116 reviews

readerspov_'s review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful 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

At first I was only used to Wattpad stories, and I was quite critical of books in general. But oh my, was I wrong. I got the whole twisted book collection and just finished twisted love. Let me tell you - I fell in love with the characters. Being used to long Wattpad stories, this one felt pretty short. But not in a bad way. I just want more of them.

I highly recommend this book and it's a sweet enemy's to lovers story that goes a bit deep mentally.

I can't wait to read the next one.

This book was a 10/10.

The spice was good too ^^

Ps.: there’s a show coming out on Netflix about this book 🙂‍↕️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Murder

ashleys_endless_tbrlist's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

This book was SO unexpected and not at all what I thought it would be. 

Was it a billionaire romance? Yes 
Was it little sister and older brothers best friend trope? Yes
Was it enemies to lovers? Yes
Was it grumpy sunshine? Yes
Was there spice? Yes
Did it discuss trauma? Yes
Did it discuss panic attacks? Yes
Did it involve a family member unaliving? Yes
Did it involve people unaliving others? Yes

And the list goes on… this book was more than just a romance with all of the tropes. This book was SO heavy and I urge you to check your trigger warnings. 

I really am so glad I finally started this series. It was such a pleasant surprise. Is it true it is being made into a Netflix series? I certainly hope so! 🥰

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, and Gaslighting

kkells's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

losthoney's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, and Gaslighting

yourssincerelyemma's review against another edition

dark funny fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, and Alcohol

nowakatie's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

so hey girl he’s abusing you!! I personally would not have let that slide!! hope this helps!!

real talk I'm so sick of authors romanticizing emotional abuse behavior. like he stalks her, love bombs her, manipulates her, threatens violence against any guy who comes near her effectively isolating her from having any male friends, and Josh is right to be pissed!! GET AWAY FROM HIM GIRL!! There’s a way to do overprotective that isn’t abusive but this was not that. Harmful for younger audiences by giving this couple a happy ending. ALSO, can we talk about the subtle pedophilia that’s going on here? He hates every single woman and can’t love them because they’re too adult and mature and emotionally intelligent for him, but then he finds this naive spunky happy girl who dresses noticeably younger and is four years younger than him and all of a sudden she’s the exception to the rule. HUH???? Anyways. Weird choices of stuff to romanticize here.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit

juperson's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Blood

katie0528's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I'm a fan of Anna Huang's other books, especially her Kings of Sin series, but this was really dark for my taste. Ava's brother Josh asks his best friend Alex to look out for her while he's abroad for a year. The two fall in love, but little do Ava and Josh know that Alex is plotting his revenge against the people who murdered his family, and his emotions are getting in the way of his vengence. But at the same time, the mere thought of Ava being with another man is enough to tilt Alex toward violence. I don't mind a morally gray love interest, but Alex leans a little too hard into violent stalker territory for my taste.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Stalking, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Suicide

Aquaphobia

starredbyalice's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

1.0

That one scene in HOTD 1x06 where Alicent and Cole are talking, and she turns and stares him down because he called Rhaenyra a cunt, but it’s me (Alicent) and Alex Volkov (Cole). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

jo_march_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.5

Girl, no…

I adored these characters

until Alex broke my heart 🥹 

I needed more redemption and resolution

 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail