Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Fae Keeper by H.E. Edgmon

4 reviews

dododenise's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

4.5

I’m so pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. I loved the premise of the first book but as that was resolved, I was scared that this book, which is about this world and politics, would not be interesting to me. Now I read this book in two days. 
The thing is, I was so interested I ended up missing some bits. The entire time there is this sense of time pressure and a lot is happening at the same time, representative of how the characters feel. There were moments of breathers but they weren’t enough for me. These characters are so strong and I would have loved it if they had gotten more and calmer moments to exist together. Especially Wyatt and Emyr’s relationship could feel static and stuck in place because the plot got in the way of them developing. 
The only reason why I feel like I missed out on these parts is because I was so engaged. The world building was rich and diverse. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Transphobia, Animal cruelty, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Sexual content

bluelou7's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Colonisation, Mental illness, Abandonment, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Cannibalism, and Toxic friendship

taylorgarcia's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

okay go off kings (or I guess not, since "kingdom" isn't really the right word for Asalin in these books.) truly Edgmon took these books and created such an expansive, beautiful, interesting fantasy concept. literally never reading fantasy that doesn't take structural inequity into account again this is so much better. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Blood

Moderate: Child abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Medical trauma, War, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Cannibalism, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Violence, Cursing, Colonisation, Death, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, and Vomit

perpetualpages's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective 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? Yes

5.0

CWs: murder and violence; some gore and body horror; on-page descriptions of panic attacks and dissociation; graphic discussions of infanticide and cannibalism; off-page instances of rape and assault; discussions of childhood sexual abuse; some animal death; explorations of dysphoria, racism, and transphobia; and some fade-to-black sexual content

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Gore, and Body horror

Moderate: Racism, Mental illness, Dysphoria, Panic attacks/disorders, and Transphobia

Minor: Child abuse, Animal death, Rape, Sexual content, Cannibalism, Child death, and Sexual assault