Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

27 reviews

noshinbean's review

dark tense 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

filmnoirz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75

wishing i had the answers to all my questions vs me realizing that not having them is kind of the point

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

nialiversuch's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Infertility, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Abandonment, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, and Cancer

Minor: Bullying, Child abuse, Dementia, Body horror, Cancer, Drug abuse, and Sexual content

mal_eficent's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This is beautiful, and haunting, and fixes every issue I've ever had with end of the world dystopian narratives. There's no satisfying end, none of the questions are answered, and there's no bright moment of hope that fixes everything or offers anyone–characters or readers– a conclusion. It just ends as quietly as it begins.

If you want a dystopian story that's beautifully written without being pretentious, and isn't full of overt violence, then you have to pick this up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Death, Abandonment, Suicide, Trafficking, Dementia, Grief, Terminal illness, Cancer, Confinement, and Infertility

Minor: Kidnapping

katypicken's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, and Suicide

dayinn's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Death

veralo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

Fascinating idea for a book, although I don’t know if I thought it was that well executed. I was bored during a big part of the book although the story is thrilling. It became very repetitive after a while and I think that the book could have been incredible if there had been more effort put in the storytelling and not only the story in itself! I liked the language and I can see the effort put in the storyline etc but i don’t know, I didn’t love it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, and Death

bailey_the_bookworm's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

5.0

Can I give a book more than five stars?

Have you ever been punched in the face by a book, but in, like, a good way? Yeah, that. 

You know those books that you finish and are like “I’m going to be thinking about this book for the rest of the week/my life”? This is one of those. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Confinement, and Kidnapping

molroseh's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Confinement

Minor: Cancer and Murder

mme_carton's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, Suicide, Abandonment, Blood, Chronic illness, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Terminal illness