Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel

32 reviews

not_a_salem_witch's review

sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

purpleviolin91's review

dark emotional informative sad 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

5.0

This book was extremely hard to put down! The book contained lots of twists! I am glad I read this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

yittani's review

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death and Mental illness

tbwhite23's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Eating disorder and Violence

shelbysaldan's review

dark mysterious tense slow-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

3.5

the book is very confusing and sort of hard to get through, it took me a lot longer to read because I was sort of dreading it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Gaslighting

bookrants's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Minor: Violence

amydrisc's review

dark emotional 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Self harm

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

ellaandcoffee's review

dark emotional sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death and Gaslighting

eatwritereadrepeat's review

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Forced institutionalization and Vomit

Minor: Suicide attempt

tetetaeskz's review

dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism