Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Butter Honey Pig Bread by francesca ekwuyasi

21 reviews

froon's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

stunning, beautiful, jaw dropping, amazing, devastating. i want to live in this writing for the rest of my life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Rape

Moderate: Suicide and Suicide attempt

headinthepages's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

This is such a beautifully written book, one you luxuriate in and savour for every word, sentence and page. 

I absolutely loved the characters and the way their stories intertwined. I loved their complex relationships with each other and themselves, and the secondary characters were brilliant. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Drug use, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Child abuse, Death of parent, Gun violence, Homophobia, Medical content, Miscarriage, Vomit, Sexual content, and Suicide

tina94's review

medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Rape, Gun violence, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, Infidelity, Sexual content, Addiction, Homophobia, Alcohol, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Suicide and Body shaming

elizlizabeth's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

It's a very cinematic book, you can imagine the characters and situations being adapted to screen in a very enriching way. The narration voice is real good in conveying bias and immersing you in the head of each character, the downside in my opinion were the dialogues as they felt too snappy and light in a way that took out from the story. In the same vein, some passages especially on Taiye's story were too concerned with getting woke points for the sake of it; it would've been nice to see the "social justice warrior" aspect play a more active part on the story rather than have it be an accessory in the background. I liked the ending (? it isn't particularly happy but I wouldn't say it was tear-wrenching which was nice given the trend in contemporary lit lately.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Homophobia, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Car accident, Infertility, Rape, and Addiction

ecn's review against another edition

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

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Rape, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Violence, Pregnancy, Murder, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Grief

popcornreading's review

challenging emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Suicide, Sexual assault, and Miscarriage

madelonpaige's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Drug use, Child abuse, Animal death, Miscarriage, and Sexual assault

micasa's review against another edition

emotional informative sad slow-paced

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

3.75

all about this book is nearly perfect if only I read the right amount of Kehinde's POV & personality. I LOVE KAMBIRINACHI SO MUCH. 

anyway plus of this book : interesting culture explanation, gorgeous sentences, will be ruining ur heart beautifully, lots of delicious foods. 

minus : 
the side characters is more real than our second lead, Kehinde, eventho it helped us understanding Taiye better i still don't think it's the right idea. native language is cool but it's confusing when there's no translation. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Abandonment, and Car accident

Minor: Suicide and Homophobia

books4bee's review

adventurous emotional reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Vomit, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Murder

Minor: Abandonment, Homophobia, Alcohol, Animal death, Body shaming, Cannibalism, Car accident, Cultural appropriation, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Blood, Colonisation, Drug use, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, and Suicide

grey_reads's review

emotional medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Sexual content

Moderate: Suicide, Transphobia, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, and Sexual harassment