Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Asesinato para principiantes by Holly Jackson

140 reviews

abception's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? No

5.0

OK, I see the hype.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Animal death, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide, Vomit, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Death of parent, and Bullying

Minor: Toxic friendship, Confinement, Drug use, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Dementia, and Fatphobia

sami_kei's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Body horror, Death, Murder, and Vomit

Moderate: Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, and Bullying

Minor: Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Rape, and Mental illness

joanagsilva's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Animal death, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Rape, Sexual assault, Murder, and Xenophobia

danajoy's review against another edition

dark emotional funny

4.5

This was gripping. The full cast audio was fantastic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Blood, Animal death, Vomit, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, and Mental illness

missy20's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

Really enjoyed this! super easy read and interesting plot to keep you hooked.

The Plot in itself is excellent, super interesting and keeps you captivated and wanting to come back for more!

The only reason it isn’t a 4/4.5 star book for me is the writing. The writing is very basic, a 10 year old could read it(for the most part) and whilst also keeping in mind it is Y/A so language and everything isn’t going to be too complex but i think it still could have been greatly improved.

The writing particularly became a problem for me with the characterisation of Pippa, I really wanted to like her and i can see how to some people she would be a very likeable character but she just annoyed me.

Overall a really easy fun read, just would’ve liked something written a tad better :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Suicide attempt, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Suicide, and Stalking

Moderate: Rape, Self harm, Alcohol, Animal death, Bullying, Animal cruelty, and Kidnapping

Minor: Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

autumne0218's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Addiction, Bullying, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Body shaming, Death, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Animal death, Child death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Rape, Confinement, Drug use, Grief, Sexual assault, Suicide, Murder, and Stalking

samflowerv6's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Murder, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Child death, Deadnaming, Grief, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, Death, Cursing, Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, and Drug use

Minor: Rape

wet_towlette's review against another edition

medium-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? No

3.75

The beginning is really good and the ending is really good. Other than that, the pacing in the middle was definitely off for me. It took me waaaay too long to finish this 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, Emotional abuse, Rape, Self harm, Addiction, Bullying, Confinement, Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Vomit, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt

rebeccabryson21's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

5.0

I absolutely loved this book, I could not put it down. I needed to know what happened next. It was so well written that when you thought you’d figured it out at twist happened and you realised you hadn’t had a clue what really was going on. It was just so fun. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Suicide, Murder, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Hate crime, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Drug use, Bullying, Stalking, Drug abuse, Death, Rape, and Mental illness

_happilyeverafter_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Car accident, Kidnapping, Drug abuse, Animal death, Bullying, Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Murder, and Rape