Reviews tagging Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado

5 reviews

booksnbones13's review

challenging dark 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? It's complicated

4.0

a great collection of stories that stick with you. well written and mysterious and creepy, but also sad and at times endearing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Grief, Dysphoria, Toxic relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Eating disorder

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Rape, Misogyny, Lesbophobia, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, and Murder

micklesreads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

These are excellent stories, but I often found myself thinking they felt too long. Major TW for trauma and sexual assault. Though there isn't any explicitly described, the effects are all through the pages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, and Mental illness

emilymbrown's review

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-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

4.75

Absolutely jarring. Not what I was expecting at all but I fell so attached the moment I read the first page. Beautiful and scary and confusing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Fatphobia, Grief, Suicide, Death, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Violence, Cursing, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Addiction, Sexism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Incest, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Pregnancy, Abortion, Rape, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Lesbophobia, Infidelity, and Death of parent

thiccarus's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Body horror, and Sexual content

Moderate: Mental illness and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Alcohol, Blood, Body shaming, and Rape

lilysaintgeorge's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

It was very dark and scary at times. I felt sometimes like I wasn't smart enough to understand the symbolism, but I really enjoyed reading it. Overall it was about the violence inflicted on women's bodies by men, society, and ourselves. I adore Carmen Maria Machado's writing style, and I love how experimental she got, particularly in Especially Heinous. I also loved all of the perspectives on queerness throughout the stories, the depiction of queer domestic abuse in Mothers, the woman's relationship with her queer daughter in Eight Bites, the meta commentary on the crazy lesbian in The Resident. Cannot recommend enough.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Grief, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Sexual content, and Sexual violence