Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Talking at Night by Claire Daverley

9 reviews

bellarosereads's review

emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death, Cancer, and Grief

Moderate: Fatphobia, Abandonment, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcoholism

anoodles's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-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

Melancholy read but worth it. Very like normal people.

Spoiler

poor guy though. Literally lead on for decades, but good for her, finding a guy who is willing to wait for her to make up her mind for that many years lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Eating disorder and Suicidal thoughts

farrahwho's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Mental illness, and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, and Eating disorder

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Sexual content

rhi_'s review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Cancer, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Infidelity, Alcoholism, and Death of parent

lydiacowley's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, and Cancer

hanahf's review against another edition

emotional sad 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, and Suicide

rhii_reading's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

4.75

Initially this seemed like a fairly standard romance but as the novel progresses this evolves into a really poignant story that spans across the years. The attention to detail when it comes to the characters and even settings really work to feel like you’ve travelled with Rosie and Will throughout their entire lives across a couple hundred pages.

Whilst I found the novel engaging even towards the end, it did start to feel a little repetitive with the constant miscommunication between Will and Roise. However, this is where the world building comes in handy as my investment in these characters meant that I didn’t mimd as much.

A story that beautifully weaves between the lives of its two main characters and finds ways to constantly draw them back towards each other.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Death

Moderate: Mental illness and Alcoholism

Minor: Eating disorder, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

reads_eats_explores's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-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

3.5

One cold November night, teenagers Will and Rosie meet while sitting around a bonfire, surrounded by their school friends, including Rosie’s twin brother and Will’s good friend, Josh. 

This is a story as old as time – the overprivileged, shy, straight-A girl who falls for the achingly handsome, wrong-sides-of-the-track bad boy. 

But maybe as we follow Will and Rosie on their ‘will they/won’t they’ journey, things will not be quite as they seem.

Talking at Night begins in a small Norfolk town in the 1990s and is split into three parts entitled ‘before’, ‘after’, and ‘long after’, and as the book unravels, we learn about the shared traumas that give reason behind these headings.

The book overall felt very YA in narrative style, and I suppose 20-year-old me would lap this up; 40-year-old me wanted a grittier read that I could really get my teeth into.

Saying that, I did enjoy the read and found it nostalgia inducing and highly immersive (a book to binge in one or two long lazy sittings) once I got over my initial irritation with Rosie, much preferring Wills's point of view and backstory. I'll certainly read more from this author in future; this is undoubtedly a solid debut. 3.5⭐

Many thanks to the author and publisher for this advance copy. As always, this is an honest review.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Classism, Death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, Addiction, Violence, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Vomit, Abandonment, Car accident, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Gore, Alcohol, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Death of parent, Homophobia, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

kaitisbooknook's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness