Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Nightshift by Kiare Ladner

6 reviews

joensign's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, and Rape

Moderate: Mental illness, Violence, and Death

Minor: Infidelity

taylordeboucher's review

emotional reflective sad 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? Yes

4.5

Kind of … speechless right now. This was an emotional rollercoaster and so many of the scenes and sentences in this are so beautifully sad and deep and poignant. This felt to me like the universe apologizing for me reading my year of rest and relaxation (which I hate the further I get from it) — this book was an answer to that. It emotionally captured the same idea without being fucking miserable. This is a story for women in their twenties !!!!! Strongly recommend

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Rape, and Drug abuse

Minor: Eating disorder and Mental illness

venetiana's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

I really wanted to like this book – it started out very interesting – but I really don't. Latent racism, unnecessary violence, sphinx without a secret. I'm sad at how angry this book made me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Drug use, Racism, Misogyny, Stalking, Alcohol, Rape, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Car accident, Death, Murder, Mental illness, Suicide, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Blood, Alcoholism, Medical content, Sexism, and Xenophobia

horizonous's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug abuse, Rape, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Sexual content and Death

Minor: Death of parent, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Mental illness, and Vomit

◦ Death = friend
◦ Mental illness = Depression, hoarding disorder

kh32's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, and Toxic friendship

maggiewen's review

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.0

“Obsession is about not wanting to be the self. Wanting to be other.”

I was almost 100% sure this was going to be a five start read for me. At least four starts but it didn’t even come close. 

The premise is so interesting: an obsessive women who ruins her own life chasing another woman, but the story went so slowly that the slow burn kind of burned out by page 100. I really liked Meggie and Sabine’s relationship at the beginning, it felt new and mysterious, and I was expecting it to feel a little less mysterious as we got to know the characters but we never really did. The only thing I think I know about them is that Meggie likes to drink and Sabine is an “it girl.” Their relationship (which I don’t even know if I want to call a relationship) felt really surface level and just boring when it has so much potential to be exciting or even a bit spooky.

To be honest I don’t think I can even talk about the plot because there was barely any. Like I’m not able to say at which part of the book was the climax because I don’t think there was one. The plot in this book is just a straight line, and sometimes I can excuse that if I like the characters but I don’t even like the characters. Sabine felt manipulative and selfish (especially towards the end) and Meggie was just…boring.

Nightshift is a pretty short and easy read if you don’t actually feel like reading, but if you want something complex and intriguing, this is not it.

“Women aren’t scared of being fascinated by other women.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol and Gaslighting

Minor: Death, Rape, and Mental illness