Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Blood & Honey by Shelby Mahurin

4 reviews

tallyp's review

challenging dark sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Torture, Gore, Stalking, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Death of parent, Cursing, Child death, Blood, Religious bigotry, Body horror, and Violence

cait's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping, Sexism, Torture, Vomit, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Body horror, Death, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, War, Abandonment, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Police brutality, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

elizafiedler's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

Not sure what I think about the ending; it's rather bleak. Not sure what I think about the magical infection of the soul that's going on, either, or how manipulative every. single. character. is. But oh boy, it's still a very compelling story.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Misogyny

Minor: Gaslighting

feuillycakes's review

slow-paced

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

2.0

This was far less enjoyable and far more irritating than Serpent & Dove. It went in a direction I wasn’t a fan of, and I was also under the impression that certain plots would have some closure, but I was very wrong. There’s no satisfaction from reading this book, and the set up for the next is not enough to interest me. I found the main characters whiny and irritating and my favourite characters got near no development or were killed off. It felt like some plot lines were made just for the drama and to meet a page count, when they would have been so much more interesting from a different perspective or with a different outcome. If you wanted to read about Reid exploring his magic with Lou and their fight against Morgane, you will be sorely disappointed. There’s mostly whining, Lou going crazy, and pointless wandering in the woods. Save your time and energy with this one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Mental illness, and Torture