Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

I Found You by Lisa Jewell

11 reviews

ynaiita_5896's review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

4.5

🦚 Single mom Alice opens her home to a man she encounters at the beach, off the coast of Yorkshire. He is going through a fugu state not knowing his identify, name or how he got there. Near London, Lily, a young wife from the Ukraine panics when her new husband does not come home from work. After she learns about his fake pass ort from the local police, she begins to search for him and for answers as to why he suddenly abandoned her.

🦚 This like most of Lisa Jewell's thrillers is bingeable, unputdownable and full of suspense. I particularly love this book because it has so much heart amidst the tense and thrilling context. The two FMCs are so different but also similar whereby they are both strong and resilient women. The multiple POVs were all easy-to-follow and flow together really well — answering questions along the way without spoiling the overall mystique and suspense of the story.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Grief, Murder, Child abuse, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Drug use, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, and Violence

nat00_'s review against another edition

challenging dark sad fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death, Murder, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Classism and Kidnapping

cnannery19's review against another edition

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

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence, Drug use, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Child death, Eating disorder, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Blood, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Rape, Death, Confinement, Sexual harassment, Murder, and Physical abuse

tamara_joy's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Murder, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Mental illness

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Confinement, Alcohol, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual violence, Stalking, and Sexual assault

aas's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Gaslighting, Grief, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence

embelle's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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? Yes

2.0

The mystery of the book was okay, and I did find myself flipping the pages wanting to find out what occurred and how the different storylines connected. But, most of the characters were incredibly annoying to me, doing and thinking things that made no sense at all given what was happening in the story. Also, lots of the dialogue was so incredibly awkward/stilted, to the point of being cringeworthy at many points throughout the book, that I kept being taken out of the story by it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gaslighting, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Death, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Torture, Rape, and Stalking

fink1129's review against another edition

dark hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Stalking, Child death, Dementia, Death of parent, Death, and Drug use

clara_017's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

I devoured the book. It was incredible. It consisted of short, exciting chapters that made you want to keep reading. The story takes place in several places at the same time, so some chapters are written from a different perspective than others. In addition, there is an important story in the past which is also told in several chapters. Normally it bothers me when so much happens at the same time in a book and there is a jump in time, but in this book by Lisa Jewell it didn't bother me at all. The book is very mysterious from the beginning and I couldn't stop reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Mental illness, Rape, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, and Death of parent

rosereadsalot's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Rape, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

alinwonderland's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Kidnapping, Mental illness, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Stalking, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Child death, and Sexual harassment