Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan

14 reviews

moonlitdiane's review

dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

1.5

It was fun to make fun of, at least.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Mental illness

itsheyfay's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

I should have DNF’d this, but the final 1/4 of the book hooked me, and the audiobook narration was decent. Otherwise, what a major letdown.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Infidelity, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual content, Murder, Alcohol, and Classism

grosslittleanimal's review

dark funny tense medium-paced

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

4.25

it wasn’t bad but it wasn’t the book i signed up to read, yk?

still a fun ride and enjoyable read, i tore through it in 2 sittings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Violence, Grief, and Murder

jdawg1's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

snowiceblackfruit77's review

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

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

4.25

This book is weird and the Ending was so bizarr. I mean this in a good way. It was like watching a tv show, reading this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Murder, and Alcohol

booksofautumn's review

dark funny tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, and Alcohol

rionstorm's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I did not expect where this book went - the supernatural aspects really took me by surprise. 
I liked how the author described social interactions. She really picked out tiny details that aren't really remarked on and highlighted them, which kept throwing me off in a good way. 

Very few of the characters were likeable, but I think that was the point. The main character, Remy, was particularly unlikeable, and spends most of the book being a misogynistic and sometimes violent creep. It was an interesting choice to take The Worst Guy You Know and make him a protagonist. 

The ending of the book made me pretty uncomfortable, because it felt like

the expected, violent conclusion to his stalking, which was depressingly realistic, and just very sad

 

I don't think I'd recommend this book, but I was interested to see where it went.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Blood, and Alcohol

rachkait's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

i didn't like it, then i did, and then I really didn't like it again. wtf was literally going on. I read read with cindys review on goodreads and I agree that this book did a much better job as a critique on influencer culture and I wish it would have leaned more into that then going so hard into psychological horror in the second half.

Also literally leave jake alone, he was my favorite character BY FAR and was just chilling, going on a date at the end and then graphically fucking dies???? get out of here

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Body horror

toryann's review

challenging dark emotional medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Gore and Rape

wrackcity's review

dark funny reflective slow-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gore, Mental illness, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis