Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Fat Lady Sings by Jacqueline Roy

8 reviews

sorcha's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Mental illness, and Homophobia

tina94's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Rape, Forced institutionalization, and Mental illness

isobelgrace's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Racism and Sexual assault

katiewhocanread's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual assault, Medical content, Forced institutionalization, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Child abuse, Grief, Gaslighting, Miscarriage, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Racism and Adult/minor relationship

erenreads12's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Just a stunningly beautiful book. As someone who works in a psych hospital this felt so important, and indeed for anyone who xares about mental health and the way we view mental illnesses in our society this is an essential read. Jacqueline Roy shows immense understanding and compassion of how trauma impacts mental health and explores this is to very unique ways through Gloria and Merle's perspectives, showing seamlessly how no two people respond to adverse life experiences in the same way. Despite this, Gloria and Merle's bond is s beautiful thing to watch develop. It is so easy to love these characters and get behind them, to feel so angry on their behalf when they are mistreated and to feel joy when they begin to recover and work through their own traumas to find some kind of happiness again. For a book that is so so sad at times my heart felt so warmed by the end. What a fantastic find.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Medical trauma, Grief, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Medical content, Death, and Eating disorder

erinosgood's review against another edition

challenging medium-paced

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

4.0

A beautiful, heart-breaking, original and simply stunning work of fiction, The Fat Lady Sings challenges you to rethink mental illness. A story of two black women who meet in a psychiatric ward in a 1990s London hospital, Jacqueline Roy creates a fragmented yet enjoyable read. Once I began to piece together how the protagonists think, I truly loved it!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Homophobia, and Forced institutionalization

ella_kate's review

challenging emotional 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? Yes

5.0

This book is one of the most powerful reflections of treatment of mental health in our society. Throughout you can’t help but feel the injustice of the way the characters are treated, I felt angry, sad and deeply moved by their experiences and I don’t think any book I’ve read recently has made me reflect me on the foundations of society and the prejudices in the way we treat people as much as this book did. This is fantastic, powerful and important and everyone should read this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Minor: Child abuse, Homophobia, Sexual assault, and Racism

emilyisreading's review

Just could get into it properly, found myself just not wanting to read.
 Might pick up again another time 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness