Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Locked Door by Freida McFadden

11 reviews

aleen_elizabeth's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Violence, Child abuse, Confinement, Stalking, Torture, Death, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Death of parent, and Toxic relationship

jadencove's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Violence, Car accident, Murder, Pregnancy, Torture, Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Death, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Gore, Grief, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Kidnapping, Medical content, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, and Physical abuse

rsagarin's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, Confinement, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Suicide, Infidelity, and Stalking

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

1.75

Why am I reading these books that clearly aren’t for me?

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Deadnaming, Torture, Vomit, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Car accident, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Gore, Gun violence, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Stalking, Suicide, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Death of parent, Drug use, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Sexual assault, Cancer, Classism, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Violence, Abandonment, Addiction, Medical content, and Sexual harassment

markholder's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark inspiring mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

Loved it but the plot twist after the long build up wasn’t totally worth it 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Mental illness

bookishchaos's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

This was okay. The plot twist was really surprising but a bit far fetched, and I wish we got more flashbacks from her childhood. The story felt very rushed towards the end and needed more development. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Mental illness, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Blood and Stalking

Minor: Death of parent and Violence

allielippe's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Car accident, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Murder

aya09x's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Blood, Suicide, Murder, Violence, Medical content, Mental illness, Child abuse, and Car accident

bookworm_43's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Body horror, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Gore, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, Car accident, Death of parent, Gun violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Torture, and Suicide

jaane's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

The first part of the book is very intriguing. It started talking about the news on what Aaron Neirling had done. How the society see him as an upstanding citizen however a dead body and remnants of bones were found in the basement of their house and how this man is Nora’s father.

It’s a bomb to start a book like this. The first pages had me so compelled that I sat down and just read till 14% which is not what I do a lot for my first time reading a book. 

It became more interesting when a detective came to ask Nora about how two of her patients end up dead with severed hands - a murder technique which was done by her father. She could not believe how this is happening and how it can be a coincidence that two of her own patients end up dead with the same description as how her father chose his murder victims.

I love how this book just play with my mind. It made me think at a lot of point that maybe Nora is losing her mind and she just doesn’t know she is indeed killing those victims without her realising. In the end, she had some realisation of who it might but it’s completely different from who it really is.

I would love to give this book 5 stars if the truth is not all at the end. I like The Housemaid more since it keeps on exposing things from the middle till the end. However this book only reveals everything at the end which is not really what I’m into. 

Overall this book is a good read. I recommend this to anything who likes Psychological Thrillers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Murder, Medical content, and Violence