Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Ward by Wildbow, J.C. McCrae

5 reviews

beansandrice's review

dark emotional sad slow-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

4.0

A very different beast from Worm, but is a strong and fresh take on the parahumans setting. 

If you liked Worm, I suggest giving it a try. Know there's a chance that what you liked in Worm won't be in Ward.  In that case, stop whenever the story loses your interest.

Before reading it, I thought there wasn't anything more Wildbow could do for parahumans. After all, Worm was So Worm. But Ward proved me wrong, and I'm happy it did. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Transphobia

radish_gal's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Mental illness, and Torture

Moderate: Death, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

melodylavender's review

challenging slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

1.0

• Congrats nobody else has ever done it worse
• Okay, that's hyperbole, a lot of the strengths of Worm are still here. These are extremely convincingly written traumatised characters, who might end up stuck in your head
• But then you realise that the plots worked through like 4 potentially fine antagonists to wind to a conclusion that doesn't mean anything, that doesn't resolve any character flaws or really even arcs. It just like. Fizzles out and is done. And all the hard decisions we made along the way didn't really matter.
• Andd then he makes the last gay character he hasn't made a predator left a predator.
  the neurodivergent little baby teenager.
  so, like, you know?
• II can't say it's not worth reading. but the more you genuinely care about the characters or the previous work or like, the decent pacing of previous works, the more it'll exhaust you.
• ohh my god she's such a cop

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Incest, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Ableism and Abortion

Minor: Drug abuse

copaganda?? he still hates addicts. prisons are fine actually? Look this isn't less cwed by me by way of being at all lighter than other wildbow stuff, it's one of if not the darkest ones, but it's impossible to sum up. I don't think I could ever really prepare someone for what's in this book and I do not mean that flatteringly

pizza_monarchy's review

adventurous challenging emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This follows a different main character from the first "Book", and is just as excellently written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and War

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Incest, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death, Torture, Transphobia, and Dysphoria

perditorian's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicide, and Grief

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, and Self harm