Reviews tagging Mental illness

A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens

12 reviews

hanna's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

2.75

Classics get way too much leeway for their length because their classics. Dickens shut up challenge.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death, and Murder

Moderate: War, Confinement, and Violence

Minor: Mental illness

avsdhpn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, War, and Violence

rossiell's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Alcohol, and Blood

Moderate: Alcoholism, Slavery, Violence, Mental illness, and Child death

Minor: Confinement, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Murder, Death of parent, and Dementia

serena_hien's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Child death, Death, Murder, Classism, Mental illness, and Violence

Minor: Death of parent

quills4days's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Genocide, Hate crime, Murder, Torture, Death, War, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide, Abandonment, Blood, Confinement, Grief, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Death of parent and Alcohol

annapox's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.75

2 stars for the first half; 3.5 stars for the second half.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Violence, Blood, Alcoholism, Classism, Confinement, Mental illness, Death, Medical content, Addiction, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Gun violence, Child death, Injury/injury detail, Kidnapping, Gore, Pregnancy, Rape, Cursing, and Death of parent

bookfairyesmee's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.0

3,5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Genocide

Minor: Cultural appropriation, Mental illness, Murder, and War

madinhoa's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

1.0

Very hard to read. Everything is confusing and like a puzzle you have to put together with missing pieces. There are a lot of names that are all very similar and characters that are hard to tell apart. The only interesting thing that happens is in the last 100 pages. I would recommend looking up the spark notes summary and watching it rather than reading the book — it is way harder to read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Child death, War, Violence, Torture, Slavery, Sexism, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Mental illness, Hate crime, Gun violence, Grief, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Death, Chronic illness, and Child abuse

milton's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Addiction, Violence, Murder, Child death, Death, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Confinement

Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Blood, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Rape, and Sexism

Minor: Death of parent and Fire/Fire injury

mjake's review against another edition

sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Child death and Death of parent