Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

We Need to Do Something by Max Booth III

5 reviews

gaetkoguy's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Quite the page turner! Dark and mysterious and quite twisted. Heed the content warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Cannibalism

Minor: Animal death, Stalking, and Suicide attempt

racl's review

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

2.0

I had heard such good things about this book, but it wasn't for me. Granted, I finished it in two sittings, but it's fairly short and mostly dialogue so that's not saying much.
The very end is compelling but you have to sift through 90% of the book being fart and butt jokes (to the point it's far outside the realm of realistic for the child character).
It's more shock horror and body horror than anything else when you do get horror, but mostly it's just listening in to a deeply disfunctional family and that's not fun to me personally.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Blood, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Vomit

Minor: Excrement

kstericker's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Cannibalism, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Toxic relationship, and Islamophobia

Minor: Pregnancy

ripxreads's review

dark emotional fast-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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Domestic abuse, and Gore

Moderate: Animal death, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Cannibalism, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Confinement and Self harm

cursivewolf's review

challenging dark emotional sad 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? Yes

4.0

You really feel the characters’ desperation and confusion. I did not expect how the story progressed at all. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Self harm, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Excrement, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Murder