Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

52 reviews

ashheinrich's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Extra star for the Jennifer Beals cameo 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

francess_m's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.5

was honestly one of my fav books ever SO GOOD 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

megloveswords12's review against another edition

dark emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug use, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Death of parent

Moderate: Mental illness and Sexual harassment

eddine's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

i love the riva sibs

they deserve the world

idkk no words its just such a rollercoaster read

i was most scared abt how the relationship bet jay and hud would turn out in the end but im so happy and satisfied and heartbroken by the ending

def not the ending i anticipated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Alcohol

klavanger's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This book is fun! I liked the tension and build-up throughout the book leading the to the end of the party and ultimate fall out of the Riva family.

Did anyone else think that Mick was an addict?? And then feel redemption when Kit asked if he was in a program?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

vee2's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Mental illness and Sexual harassment

courtney_simpson's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Grief, and Death of parent

mybookishlife2's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.5

This book while it definitely kept me wanting to know what happened and why I also found myself super annoyed and idk what else. Bored??? I really don’t know. While I enjoyed the writing and the characters were so intricate, this just wasn’t for me. And while this is nothing on the author or anything it’s more on me and unfortunately this book didn’t do it for me. Also, my attention span does not do well with the changing of POV’s as it flowed. I became super confused as to who it was but again this my issue not anything else. So yeah, I also had such HIGH hopes but it just didn’t get there. 😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

becca_l's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Minor: Body shaming

sennaje's review against another edition

inspiring medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Death of parent, and Abandonment