Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Patient by Jasper DeWitt

40 reviews

emilypage99's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Suicide, Child abuse, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Rape, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Medical trauma, and Gaslighting

zavia_v's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

3⭐️
Because the book is so short, it was definitely a page turner because I knew I could finish it quickly and the concept is really engaging. However, there really wasn't a twist. The end was predictable and didn't provide much surprise or relief. I did enjoy it though, not bad, not great.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Blood, Gore, Adult/minor relationship, Medical content, Suicide, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, Child death, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Rape, Self harm, Incest, Grief, Mental illness, and Violence

maja2189's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Physical abuse

Moderate: Sexual assault

shadoz's review

challenging dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

2.0

This book had immense potential. And then it absolutely shit the bed. I hated the ending found it quite ridiculous actually. Loved it so much up until the last few chapters. Beyond disappointed. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Rape, Gaslighting, and Mental illness

melllephant's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Minor: Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Pedophilia, Blood, Medical content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Torture, Bullying, Animal death, and Chronic illness

feraltail's review

dark medium-paced

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

3.75

The beginning of this had some promise, it does feel like “a debut novel” but that doesn’t really bother me, we all gotta start somewhere. I think this book does a pretty decent job describing how a lot of (maybe not so many places now w/ modernization) mental health institutions and patients do not receive the help they need. I resonated with that. But 
i cannot write a full review for this novel without spoiling it. that’s how much the last quarter of this book made me mad. mad and confusing at every single decision made for the characters and the plot?? you had a mildly compelling mystery going and THAT is what you’re ending with? I— 👎🏻 There is a confusing lack of barely any foreshadowing to this ending. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Excrement, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Confinement, and Mental illness

why the fuck did this book try to have a happy ending? the last 20-25 pages of this took me out. a horror novel that throws around sexual violence, assault, rape, for the sake of so casually all to have a sappy “and they all lived on in slight traumatized but happy peace! the end” is…confusing to me.

madalina0_0's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Murder, Sexism, Physical abuse, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent and Cursing

coco78337's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Animal death, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Abandonment, Body horror, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Incest

arianamadison's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

sunshower12's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.75

The ending is more supernatural than factual which I had a hard time accepting. This book had a lot of potential to be very good, but it faltered... it was really short and the world was not fleshed out enough. It also tried very hard to be smart and wasn't. The main character was supposed to be a genius but the fact that he was so easily manipulated by the antagonist was frustrating more than anything. It made it very unbelievable. The arrogance that he had too made him just gross in my opinion. It's a mid horror story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Child abuse, Child death, and Rape