Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

The One by John Marrs

35 reviews

othersociologist's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Ableism, Cancer, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, and Violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Kidnapping

curlyewe's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Death, Drug use, Infertility, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

sleepybunnyreading's review against another edition

dark reflective tense fast-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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, and Murder

Moderate: Mental illness, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Pregnancy

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Grief

kmsander4's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I'll be honest, I wanted to love this one more than I did. I felt like the set-up was perfect. It had everything I needed but it just, fell flat in the execution.

There were some surprises and I loved that so many of the chapters ended in cliffhangers but in the end, I found too many of the stories to be predictable. Which in a book that had so many twists early on that caught me off guard, was extremely frustrating.

I will read more John Marrs in the future because I saw the potential, I was just hoping for a wee bit more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Minor: Death, Drug use, and Suicidal thoughts

kaylee14's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Stalking, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Pedophilia

librarianjennifer's review against another edition

mysterious reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Miscarriage, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Gore, Infertility, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

frantically's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-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

4.75

This made me root for a serial killer — make of that what you will.

I received "The One" years ago as a birthday present and picked it up again on a whim. At first I was a bit hesitant. There are five stories, that interact very very little until the end. 

But after a few 100 pages or so, I'd really gotten invested in 4/5 stories and wanted to see them continue. There were really surprising twists, that I didn't anticipate at all and towards the end, all the already short chapters (my fav) ended cliffhanger-ish and I couldn't put the book down anymore. Definitely one of my new favourite thrillers!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Death and Pregnancy

Minor: Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, and Fire/Fire injury

leebeeloves's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Fatphobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

astroerica's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Grief, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Kidnapping

komaedacoffee's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Yeeeesss

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Child death, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Stalking, Abortion, Suicide attempt, and Acephobia/Arophobia