Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Girls of Storm and Shadow by Natasha Ngan

7 reviews

denee16's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-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

5.0

This book and the series so far has been incredibly hard to read. Not because it is bad, quite the opposite actually. This book has made me feel seen in my own journey of healing and dealing with trama. It shows the ugly truth of every topic it covers, but does so with such authenticity it can make it hard to breath. I am enraptured by this book and Natasha's writing. Her imagery is incredible and descriptive and her story is profound.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

thekiwibibliophile's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense 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? It's complicated

3.5

A good follow on from the first book, although not at good in my opinion. I really liked the amount of action & the amount of exposition to build the world. There are so many twists & I did get kinda annoyed at a few of them.. I’m going to have to get my hands on the 3rd!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, and War

victoriousbookworm's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.25

This book does is not a victim of the second book slump. While there is a clear plot that it’s following, there is still a bunch going on and we learn so much about the core characters in this one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and War

Moderate: Mental illness, Slavery, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Alcohol

kas_the_crow19's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Self harm, and Violence

Moderate: Mental illness, Racism, Sexual violence, and Murder

ryann_400's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense 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: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

foreverinastory's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-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

3.0

Something about this story just has me at meh. I think I need to take a break from marathoning audios. I definitely feel tired. I will reread this book at some point because it's definitely good, right now I am not in the mood for it and it reflects in the 3 stars. I wanted to enjoy this more than book one, but it's about the same for me.

Rep: Asian coded cast, sapphic female MC with PTSD, lesbian coded female love interest with PTSD, lesbian coded female side character, side MLM couple.

CWs: Death, violence, blood, self harm, sexual assault, sexual violence, grief, war, gore, alcohol consumption, alcoholism, panic attacks, mental illness (PTSD), rape, suicide, murder, body horror, slavery, injury/injury detail, addiction. Moderate: Child abuse, child death, genocide, physical abuse, racism, consensual sexual content, suicidal thoughts, toxic relationship, vomit, trafficking, kidnapping, fire/fire injury, adult/minor relationship, misogyny, gaslighting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Genocide, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

miabellawymer's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

This book, and the first one in the series, are buy far my favourite books I’ve read this year. Would recommend to anyone who loves queer fantasy!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail