Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon

29 reviews

anneenichole's review

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Child death

Moderate: Grief, Addiction, Mental illness, and Self harm

jj_tj's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, and Child death

Minor: Suicide and Fire/Fire injury

britnidudley's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Mental illness, Death, Child death, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

batcaves's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Infertility, Mental illness, Addiction, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Self harm, Suicide, Grief, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

antimony's review

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

didn’t like when jax went kind of crazy towards the end her conclusions were so nonsense (does it truly make more sense that shirley’s family hired an actor to scare lexie so they could get the house or that there are creepy things in the evil springs that drowned lexie) but i liked the creepy water and i liked the epilogue and i liked ethel’s timeline surprisingly a lot (even though her last chapter her age was so wrong i did the math. if she was 37 in 1929 there is no way she could be 95 in 1972)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death, and Self harm

Moderate: Child death and Infertility

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

uhhlexiconic's review

dark emotional 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

3.25

Detracting from the present by illuminating the past, the story barrels towards a rushed and unearned ending

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, and Suicide

Moderate: Infertility

readwithbells's review against another edition

5.0

This subverted all my expectations. It’s not really a horror but it IS a true gothic and man did it keep me engaged the whole time. Usually with dual perspectives between the past and the present, it doesn’t really work for me, but the way this one was told absolutely did. This is more a story of grief then anything else and is really sad, but I loved the way everything built upon each other. Absolutely my favourite version of “be careful what you wish for”. 

Loved:
- that we knew there was an entity in the pool the whole time
- the way mental health and self harm was dealt with
- the complex familial relationships 
- the ending!! Was exactly what I expected and yet done in a wonderfully surprising way
- the audiobook narrators: loved having 2 of them and they both absolutely smashed it, *highly* recommend the audio version 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, and Child death

Moderate: Infertility and Alcoholism

Minor: Terminal illness

kayelina's review

emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Death

Minor: Alcoholism, Cursing, Addiction, and Alcohol

paronomaniac's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Mental illness, and Self harm

Minor: Suicide

lpdx's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Mental illness