Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The History of Bees by Maja Lunde

9 reviews

openess's review against another edition

emotional reflective relaxing slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Mental illness

Minor: Deportation

yellowbinge's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, and Abandonment

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Medical content, Death of parent, and War

julierambaeck's review against another edition

emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

This was such a depressive read. No one was happy for more than a page or two... The last 20 pages were the only that were a little hopeful. I thought the characters were incredibly annoying - mostly the two male main characters. They really thought that the sun revolved around them, plus the way they thought about women, and the people in their life - disgusting. The good things about this book was that it was very readable and the topic and themes were very relevant and interesting, it definitely got me thinking about the environment and the bees. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, and Abandonment

Minor: Cannibalism

tigertheory's review against another edition

dark 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

2.5

The true tragedy here is the emotional ineptness of men.

I would’ve probably stopped reading this after ~100 pages if not for the fact that the other book I was reading was worse and I didn’t want to dnf two in a row.
Not a big fan of the style and narration; subtlety doesn’t seem to be Lunde’s strong suit. I hated existing inside all of the MCs heads and was glad when the main plot picked up pace in the second half. Overall, the story of the bees is not what’s interesting here as the whole thing is quite obvious from the start and I could’ve done with less talk about bees, beehives and bee history.
Instead, a closer examination of the family dynamics would’ve been interesting; of the parent's expectations of their children and the allegory that is to be found in how we treat our Mother Earth.

Overall, I’m puzzled why this was everywhere a few years ago – must’ve met the zeitgeist at just the right time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Abandonment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Religious bigotry, and Alcohol

Minor: War

leollii's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, and Classism

louiseimaquarium's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

Well, ich will definitiv nicht mehr sein, wenn die Bienen aussterben..
Ich mochte Tao mit großem Abstand am liebsten, George fand ich anstrengend, William war halb-lovable, aber irgendwie ist er auch einfach ein Creep. Generell sind die Beschreibungen der weiblichen Nebencharaktere etwas misogyn..
ansonsten ist das Thema super, der Aufbau ist super und der Plot ist nicht predictable! Ein sweetes buch all in all. Ich fand es so spannend, dass ich mich zurückhalten musste, nicht die Sätze zu überspringen

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

papertosia's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness

horizonous's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, and Sexual content

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

◦ Child abuse = incl. child labour
◦ Mental illness = Depression

michellice's review against another edition

informative reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.0

I didn't really enjoyed it....

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Content Warnings

Minor: Mental illness and Grief