Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

6 reviews

bomenvernietiger's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This isn't a book it's a depression machine. Jesus Christ Stephen. Incredible

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Classism, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Antisemitism, Blood, Body horror, Suicide, Ableism, Animal cruelty, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Alcohol, Child abuse, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Addiction, Violence, Alcoholism, Cannibalism, Car accident, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, Medical content, Terminal illness, and Vomit

Moderate: Infidelity

Louis says some ableist shit. You could interpret this as the author agreeing with that stuff, but since Louis is an asshole in other portions of the book too, I think it's just a symptom of the assholery.

smithreads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Car accident, Child death, Grief, Medical content, Death, Violence, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

Minor: Antisemitism, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, and Suicide

desireewoodwhite's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Minor: Suicide

shyleek's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad slow-paced

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

3.0

Interesting concept but I personally felt like there was A LOT of slow parts. Too much story building and not enough of the actual story. Really most of the action happens in the last 1/3 of the book. Maybe my expectations are too high from Stephen King being talked up as a master of horror writing but this just wasn't it for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Death, Medical content, Animal death, Gore, Child death, and Grief

Moderate: Murder and Suicide

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

sapphicmuscaria's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective slow-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? It's complicated

4.25

Not really scary, it's more sad, with its scary elements being more interesting and eerie than horror. I don't think that was a bad thing with this book though.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Death, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Mental illness, Animal death, Gore, Cultural appropriation, Ableism, and Alcohol

Minor: Rape, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Vomit

reusablecup's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Body horror, and Gore

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, Grief, Vomit, Violence, Car accident, Blood, Alcohol, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Suicide, Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, and Fire/Fire injury