Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

63 reviews

maecaitlin's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

2.0

If I had a pound for every time I trusted booktok's recommendations for horror and it massively disappointed me, I'd be a rich girl. 

Bervoets tries to be critical about the state of the internet, yet it often falls flat. The premise is interesting yet her writing comes across more edgelord than masterful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, and Lesbophobia

woodiefrog's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad slow-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

3.25

A strange book, maybe not correctly categorized. I think it’s more of a psychological thriller with

lesbian romance B plot that ends up totalling A plot

😂 

At various points in reading I started to wonder if we are perhaps taking on the role of the voyeur like in-story interlopers, so eager to hear the gruesome bits of somebody’s life revealed to us (and disappointed when it’s not how we think it’s going, as many other readers here echo in their reviews). And if we are perhaps supposed to be aware of this fact.  If the writer was intentional on this point, I applaud her. Clearly it worked. On the other hand, however, the story does feel derailed by the problematic relationship (which I enjoyed; let there be more portrayals of all relationships, toxicity is not exclusive to heteronormativity and we need more affirmation on that in our media), and the premise that starts the intrigue went absolutely nowhere. Overall, a good quick read with unexplored potential.

Did you know some 14% Americans reportedly have sex in their workplace? I did not. But thanks to some stuff in this book I did a very quick and inconclusive research on Google, and now you know too 🙃

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Antisemitism, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Mental illness, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

bookbird's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Antisemitism, and Alcohol

wowsmeows's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Stalking, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

rowanelisa's review against another edition

challenging fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Suicide attempt, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

kerriski's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicide, Blood, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

lesemauuus's review against another edition

challenging tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Self harm

Moderate: Mental illness

sherri_berri's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Interesting topic but it fel  unfinished. I actually got to the last page and was confused where the rest of the book was? I understand its a novella, and short books are great, but I feel that it ends abruptly and prematurely, seemingly without intention. Other than that, I found the character to voice to be strong and the plot to develop well. These two aspects benefited the

reveal of sexual coercion

quite well, while majntaing the blurry uncertainty of the setting & storyline. I would have loved to delve further into how the main character - either growth or devolution. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Antisemitism

Minor: Animal cruelty and Child death

emilyatthelibrary's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Mental illness, Racism, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Vomit, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

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trippalli's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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

3.0

It's a challenging book full of awful things happening on the Internet and the witness stress of those paid to review flagged posts and the hardships of that job, their coping.... Their fallout of beliefs from flat Earth to denying the Holocaust, the tiers of what most need taken down and what isn't is hard, the hopefully things they see, some described, is really hard to hear. Especially a young girl cutting her face before killing herself.. And how they take the cutting post down and find out about her suicide later because they can't stop thinking about the girl and remember her real name and investigate. Along in the story is the narrator trying to have a relationship with her girlfriend that goes through it's own hardships in parallel to the harshness of this job both women and their friends work at.


It's well written but full of so many trigger flags, most of not all of them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail