Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

134 reviews

iris3271's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Self harm

oliviaquested's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, and Suicide

janabananaaaa's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

Love Lux and everything she does, rest was too slow for me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual violence, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Suicide

livilu_'s review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Grief, Suicide attempt, Self harm, and Suicide

wormgirl's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Suicide, Sexual content, Child death, Child abuse, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Death, and Confinement

ksmith_23's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Mental illness, Death, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Child death

brougham_is_elite's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

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

3.5

The overuse of beautiful prose becomes laborious and slow. There were interesting ideas explored but it was not always clear what the author was trying to comment on; a lot of the book appears contradictory. It was very vivid and evocative at its best, but quite often came across as pretentious and unfocused, especially in the middle of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Suicide

Moderate: Grief, Stalking, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, and Death

Minor: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, and Mental illness

christinewonder's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Sexual content, and Child death

Moderate: Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Racial slurs, Alcohol, Blood, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Abortion

Minor: Drug use and Drug abuse

mergwenthur's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

This book definitely has problematic elements. I mean I know its from the POV of young men but the description of the young women etc you can very much tell is written by a man who doesn't know women 😭 That being said I couldn't put the book down tbh! It was interesting to realise that you never truly know the Lisbon girls' POV, you never truly know who they are apart from what has been observed. Its a very tragic story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual content, Mental illness, and Child abuse

emelayaa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Blood, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Stalking

Moderate: Fatphobia