Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

34 reviews

juan_adhd_reading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny reflective 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

This entire series has permanently changed my brain chemistry and how I view Sci-fi / Fantasy forever! Out of the current three in the series, this one is the one in which I felt less confused, and I felt like I knew more or less what was going on most of the time. Amazing, adorable characters all around, both new and old faces (wink wink...), with Muir's very signature humor as expected. The beginning almost feels like a sitcom -in an apocalyptic setting mind you- but a coming-of-age, found family sitcom nonetheless. And then it escalates SO quickly, and the ending happened, and HOLY JOD!!! WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!?!? I wish I had the proper words to describe just how great this book is, but I'm quite literally left speechless. So all I'll say is that I love Nona, and Nona loves you too <3

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Eating disorder, Genocide, Mental illness, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

arysuh's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny lighthearted mysterious reflective 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

4.75

Comme précédemment, la première lecture laisse un goût totalement différent des relectures. Je l’ai trouvé gnangnan tout d’abord par rapport à GtN et finalement, c’est mon préféré. Nona aime tout le monde 🩷

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

essieruth's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

coffeeandcomedy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

I love Nona, and Nona would probably love me. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Gun violence, Blood, and War

Moderate: Mental illness, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Medical trauma

winged's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Chronic illness, Hate crime, Cannibalism, Abandonment, and Classism

julesadventurezone's review

challenging emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

It starts off slow like all books in the locked tomb series, and the tone is different. No more campy drama and funny dialogue, this feels real and deeply wretched and often sad. 
I love Nona's little family very much and cried about them several times toward the end of this book.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Drug use, Eating disorder, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, and Colonisation

Minor: Sexual violence and Police brutality

ebp's review

dark funny mysterious 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

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, and Car accident

steph_weigle's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

boywonder's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-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? It's complicated

3.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, and War

talon1010's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense medium-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? No

5.0

Oh, there's simply too much to say. This is a perfect book.

Mines all pretty, i did the flags blue and pink

The bonus content was FANTASTIC, I'll say. Fascinating and trackable but builds the world with depth more even than the considerable breadth of information that can be broached by... Such characters as these 😁💀⚔️

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, and Abandonment