Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente

2 reviews

lordofdisorder's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, Blood, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Drug abuse, Gore, Incest, Violence, Xenophobia, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and War

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Forced institutionalization, and Abortion

uranaishi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Classism

Minor: Ableism, Biphobia, Pedophilia, Violence, Vomit, and Abortion