Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

173 reviews

amandaelle's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

kimmmhere's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

This book and its writing style gave me a feeling of nostalgia, like the Dutch writing styles. The story didn’t really catch me until close to the end. I liked the unexpected twist in the end. Overall pretty good.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dementia and Grief

Minor: Death and Suicidal thoughts

ameliabiblio's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

I first read this book 9 years ago and I just reread it for the first time. It’s still a really interesting book, but I definitely approached it from a different perspective since I know the twist. Also, basically the only thing I remembered about the book was the twist, so I also rediscovered a lot of things.
This is a deeply YA book. And I don’t mean that in a negative way. I just mean that our main characters are all deeply teenagers. They feel things deeply. They think they know so much when they actually know so little. They’re not perfect people or even nice people the whole time, but they’re so human you can’t help but feel for them.
I think this book struggles a little bit with a lack of direction beyond the main mystery: what exactly happened to Cady? There’s a lot of ideas about privilege and wealth and abuse of power, but some of it is heavy-handed and some of it is barely noticeable. This lack of a clear idea beyond the mystery means that the reread value of this book isn’t high, at least to me. Rereading it 9 years later was definitely an interesting experience and I don’t feel like it was a waste of time, but I don’t think I’d gain much from rereading it again 9 years from now.
I can’t really write anymore of this review without revealing the twist, so into spoiler land I go.

I do feel like this book doesn’t hit as hard when you know what happens at the end. I won’t lie, though. Even knowing Johnny, Mirren, and Gat were dead didn’t stop me from tearing up at the goodbye scene. I just felt overly invested in all of the foreshadowing and like I was just chugging through the rest of the book to get to the big reveal.

I do still think this book is really well-written and 100% worth reading. The twist will certainly get you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

savvyy01's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

shaleen64's review against another edition

dark emotional lighthearted mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.5

Without the final chapter I would rate this book a 2 star. However, the ending delivers an unexpected plot twist and does tie the rest of the plot line together well. 

However, there are many smaller tropes throughout the book that are underdeveloped and important issues brushed over. It’s not a book I would recommend but at least it’s only short.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, and Racism

Minor: Alcoholism, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Dementia

daley_mckdonald's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death and Gun violence

reemoony's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

the main premise of this book is that the ending is supposed to be this huge, unexpected thing. i went into this thinking that no plot twist could ever catch me off guard. this one did. as i was reading and learning little things, i kept thinking. is this it? is this the huge twist ive been waiting for? if so, shitty book. but it hits you in the face, and i love this book so much for that. genuinely, if anyone asks you how it ends, just lie.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Classism

cloud_doggos's review against another edition

emotional mysterious 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

4.75

I’d heard a lot about this book a few years ago and picked it up. I really enjoyed reading it. The endearing characters with flaws and the microcosm of The Sinclairs private island are a bittersweet escape to read through. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Suicidal thoughts, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Self harm

alixsbooktherapy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative mysterious relaxing sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

I gasped when cadence talked about her accident it broke my heart 
I loved how descriptive the author was for the first few chapters 
"I wanted to go back with a book" me too cadence
Gat flirting was so funny really brought some brightness to the awkwardness
"The universe was good because  he was in it"
My heart hurt for cadence  after she found out gat kept something  from her 
"The universe is seeming really huge right now I need something to hold onto" gat said
"I'm here"
THE KISS YES!! IM SO HAPPY
Granny tipper😭
Mummy should of been nicer and let the kids grieve
How I hated mummy she was a drunk and loved to manipulate her kids I definitely feel this book was overhyped I hope book 2 redeems my hope for this
I feel this book would of been 10x better if it was longer and was more descriptive other then that the end pulled it to together for me
I hated the family and how mommy and granddad were such assholes to the kids and wanted to spilt gat and cadence up just because he's not white like take your racist bullshit elsewhere
We finally learn that Cady didn't hit her head on a swimming injury and it was a fire injury instead.
"I have lost you, gat because of how desperately,desperately I fell in love"
'It's good to be loved even though it will not last"
"Be a little kinder"
"Shut up I'm 10 already"

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

crieraylas's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, and Blood