Reviews tagging 'Rape'

The Patient by Jasper DeWitt

44 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

sigynmoon's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Child death, Rape, and Child abuse

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

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

ggcd1981's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Em uma série de postagens on-line, Parker H., um jovem psiquiatra, narra o relato angustiante de seu tempo trabalhando em um decrepito hospital psiquiátrico em New England. Através de um fórum de mensagens na Internet, Parker espera comunicar ao mundo o seu esforço para curar um paciente desconcertante. O jovem médico em seu primeiro dia no hospital ficou sabendo sobre o caso mais difícil e profundamente perigoso da instalação: um homem de quarenta anos que foi originalmente internado no hospital aos seis anos. Este paciente não tem diagnóstico conhecido. Seus sintomas parecem evoluir com o tempo. Cada pessoa que tentou tratá-lo foi levada à loucura ou ao suicídio. Desesperados e com medo, os diretores do hospital mantêm-no estritamente confinado e permitem um contato mínimo com o pessoal para sua própria segurança, convencidos de que libertá-lo desencadearia uma catástrofe no mundo exterior. Parker, brilhante e confiante demais, decide descobrir o que aflige esse paciente misterioso e finalmente curá-lo. Mas a partir do seu primeiro encontro com o paciente misterioso, as coisas fogem ao controle e, ele se vê diante de uma possibilidade além de sua imaginação. 

The patient é um livro que gostei bastante. Ele é atmosférico e misterioso com o cenário tenso de um asilo decrepito.

Houveram poucos pontos baixos no livro, como por exemplo quando Parker começa a se comunicar com o paciente misterioso e este se mostra um homem coerente e inteligente. Nessa parte o paciente tenta com sucesso convencer o jovem doutor, e o leitor, de que seu caso é uma conspiração para que o hospital se mantenha ganhando o dinheiro por sua internação e seus pais, por sua vez, se vejam livre da vergonha que ele é. Nessa parte achei que a trama tinha assumido uma natureza humana e mundana e meu interesse diminuiu em consequência. Felizmente isso foi apenas um truque do paciente e descobre-se que ele era algo que não era humano e a verdadeira criança que foi originalmente atendida no hospital estava a muito tempo morta e sepultada na parede do quarto na casa de seus pais ricos. The Patient foi um livro que me deu o tipo de terror que realmente considero interessante. Algo inumano que não pode ser explicado ou convencido, não tem senso moral e não pode ser completamente destruído. O final foi sinistro com a descoberta do corpo do garoto, com o confronto entre Parker e o “paciente”, com a descoberta de que este último era na verdade uma criatura que se alimentava do medo e angustia do hospital há décadas e com a resultante fuga dessa criatura para o mundo exterior. Foi uma conclusão interessante a ideia de que aquele mal inexplicável estava solto no mundo e os posts do médico no fórum eram uma espécie de aviso ao que poderia existir por aí no mundo.

O clima do livro foi muito bom, a história muito interessante e me manteve intrigada até o fim. Dou 4.75 estrelas. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Abandonment, Death, Emotional abuse, Child death, Sexual assault, Confinement, Medical content, Grief, Rape, and Suicide

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death of parent, and Child abuse