Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Diecinueve garras y un pájaro oscuro by Agustina Bazterrica

17 reviews

iseefirede's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

3.0

A decent collection of spooky short stories. The sentences can be very long and that made it a little harder for me to read. Given how short the stories were it was hard to appreciate them completely. Some of the stories felt rushed and would have been better flushed out more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Death, Grief, and Murder

charmainelim's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

2.0

Had this actually done something to explore the difficult themes within each story, maybe it would have been better. What it did was use really disturbing concepts to barely touch the surface of the story while never making it feel like there was truly commentary or a sense of completion. Also the SA the children went through was entirely unnecessary, even less so when the vile nature of the topic was barely even touched upon each time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Suicide

smithreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, and Dysphoria

mermaidsherbet's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

theinkwyrm's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

2.0

Dear sweet mercy this took so long to read and was so disappointing. I had really high expectations for this because I enjoyed Tender is the Flesh and still think about it pretty regularly, but this short story collection managed to dash almost every expectation I had in a mostly negative way. While most short story collections are generally uneven, for this one the scale is basically tipped over on its side because of how much the bad outweighs the good. While I did enjoy a couple stories (namely Unamuno’s Boxes, Perfect Symmetry, and The Continuous Equality of the Circumference- which no one will be able to convince me wasn’t inspired by the blueberry girl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory- with special mention to Candy Pink and Teicher vs. Nietzsche), most of these were truly unbearably boring and over-written. I can’t believe any of these stories won awards. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicide

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, and Blood

kkalicky94's review against another edition

challenging mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Violence, Blood, and Abortion

hayleyvharrington's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Mental illness, Abortion, and Death of parent