Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

47 reviews

ravenpuff'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

mikathereviewer's review against another edition

informative reflective relaxing medium-paced

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

4.0

After deciding to read it, but didn't for about four times I finally read it. I wasn't sure when the right time was to read it. But I'm pretty sure that this book is about Schizophrenia, a mental illness that I think to be quite interesting. 

The book isn't that long, but that is what makes this book perfect. It doesn't just gives the reader a good message in few words, but also symbolises how fast a mental illness can take power over you before you see it coming. The wallpaper and how it was described was very interesting. While reading it got more and more intense. Showing how much faster the Schizophrenia spreads into the brain, when something triggers it.

"The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing."

As someone who thinks that mental illnesses (especially the hallucinating ones) are interesting to know more about I enjoyed this book a lot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Gaslighting

Moderate: Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death, Self harm, Suicide, and Medical content

gandalf_a's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

rory_john14's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Gaslighting

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Ableism, Confinement, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

bluvlvt's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Gaslighting

aelsaj711's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

4.0

This book is about

a woman spiraling because of her controlling and abusive husband.

The metaphor of the yellow wallpaper is done quite well, and the story has a strong impact, especially for its length. I read it really quickly, and the author's writing style was impeccable. Would recommend!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Confinement and Toxic relationship

rileyyy02's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Lady is told she is psycho, becomes psycho. I have always loved this story. Very relatable.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

cat12345's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Ableism, Chronic illness, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Misogyny, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Death, Homophobia, and Misogyny

phlegyas's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

5/5

This is one of those reads that entirely get ahold of your attention, your psyche even, and force you into a deep esoteric burrow, fumbling on your way to some sort of escape or release. It is not an easy read. Not in the sense of language or the way it was written. The language and the control of the language are both fine. It is, however, a very hard read because of the topics and the allegories. Without wanting to give away much, the fact alone that it was written by a woman before 1900 and it deals with matters that may still be societal and medical taboo (at least in some places), is nothing short of exceptional; ground breaking, thought provoking, horizon expanding.

5/5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Mental illness, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

binreads's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

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

4.0

Definitely a great book to analyze and research afterwards. The more I think about it, the more I want to re read it now that I know the exact context. Extremely disturbing and sad.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Gaslighting