Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp

38 reviews

ebac622's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Suicide, Violence, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

samanthas92's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-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

4.0

trigger warning on this one is hight, brace yourself for a heartache with this one, dont love charactors death rate in this one is high, its fast pace and heartbreaking 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Mass/school shootings, and Murder

doctorslycat's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Wonderfully written and a heartbreaking novel. Had me on the edge the entire time, I couldn’t put it down. It’s been a bit since I read it, and if I could read it again for the first time, I would. It does touch on some heavy themes, most of which are pretty self-explanatory, but it does a great job telling them. I recommend this book to anyone looking for a more darker story and are prepared for some angst and grieving with the characters. Though it’s a relatively short time span covered in the book, the writing makes it seem like it takes longer - but in a good way. Love it, and would read it again for the first time if I could!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

been a little bit, but I do believe the aggressor commits sU!c!d€ at the end of it

tnemelce's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Mass/school shootings, and Murder

Moderate: Homophobia, Mental illness, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Rape and Alcohol

sing1133's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-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

5.0

I really loved this book! It was so unique, at least compared to my other reads. It grabbed my attention and kept it throughout the entire book. The book centers around a school shooting, however you don’t get the pov of the actual shooter. I’ve seen some reviews that didn’t like this since it wasn’t really a psychological analysis of that type of person. However, for me I liked having the multiple povs of other characters that are all experiencing this event happening in different ways. You also can still see everyone’s connection to the shooter and get a glimpse into their mind without actually hearing it from the shooter themselves. I think it creates some tension because the characters don’t know their next move and therefore neither do you as the reader. 

Having the multiple povs kept the pace up throughout. I also like that while their thoughts were obviosuly focused on the shooting and shooter, you still got some backstory for them, that still related to the rest of the story. I read this really fast because I was so invested. I thought it was really good and unique, especially about such a heavy topic. It definitely made me reflect on the issue at hand. I would highly recommend it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Suicide, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness, Rape, and Toxic relationship

kashrae99's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Medical content, Dementia, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

Minor: Bullying, Chronic illness, Religious bigotry, Car accident, and War

josiew's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Mental illness, and Mass/school shootings

bubblepricks's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

This book revolves around the POV of 4 main characters experiencing a school shooting. Obviously a difficult subject to write on and one that’s going to upset people one way or the other. I’m left feeling bummed out, but in a satisfying way. I don’t love every aspect of this book, however I think the author did what she intended to. To invoke emotion through writing is a talent 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Bullying, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and Alcohol

agoraphobic_crawfish's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

 TW/CW: mass shooting, gun violence, mentions of abuse, mentions of grief, mentions of Alzheimer's, mentions of rape.

Reading this was painful. Upsetting. I probably won't read another book like it in the future.

Tyler said he "didn't want to be alone anymore". He was never alone. He isolated himself in his grief and then when he successfully pushed ppl away, he turned that grief to anger. I can't feel bad for him though. He wasn't a good person before the shooting. As much as autumn tried to paint him as a saint because he was there for her. he's homophobic, a rap*st, and manipulative/controlling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Islamophobia, Dementia, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Outing, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

per_iscritto's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective 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

4.0

I was intrigued by this and needed a second book for a BOGO. The subject sounded heavy but caught my attention and found myself purchasing it.  Pulled this out of the TBR last week and devoured it. It was really well written and had only a mild slow down toward the last 75 pages. The teen characters were flawed and struggling as most of us do but it was hard not to see all sides including the antagonist. Grief is  crappy and sometimes feels absolutely impossible to bear and we’re not all capable of getting through it.  This one will remain in my library. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Grief, Mass/school shootings, and Murder