Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan

10 reviews

jem_carstairs's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Rape, Grief, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Self harm, Alcohol, Murder, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death, Death of parent, Child death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Animal death, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Transphobia and Pedophilia

tilda_bookworm's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Feels a bit weird to say I "enjoyed" this, perhaps its more accurate to say that I was moved by it. The main character was compelling and the friendships were touching and hopeful in a very bittersweet way. I felt like I cared a lot about the characters and even though I predicted quite a few of the plot points I still felt the squeeze in my chest when they actually happened. Picked this book up randomly in the library without knowing anything about it and it was not at all what I expected from the blurb/title. Thought I would be reading a bit of a mystery/thriller but its really a snapshot of the despair and misery inflicted on children in care. Has left me feeling contemplative. We need to get a grip and change things. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Self harm, Child death, Suicide, and Drug use

mathsim's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm, Bullying, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Addiction, Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Drug use, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Cursing, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Lesbophobia, and Sexual violence

egmamaril's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Self harm, Suicide, and Murder

Minor: Ableism

angel_kiiss's review

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

One hell of a list of trigger warnings but one hell of a book. Vive la revolución 

“I - begin today.”

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Rape, Police brutality, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Violence

icecreamemperor's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny 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? It's complicated

4.5

Really loved this book, which delivers that genuine, careening teenage energy/experience — and then places it in a genuinely messed up world that has no interest in protecting anyone. It's a scary and stressful and emotional combination, especially because the book succeeds in making the world seem real and continuous in a way that most books aren't: it's hard to explain the feeling, but it's like... in this book, there is a strong sense that the world continues beyond the borders of the characters and the story — and not in some vague worldbuild-y way, but in as detailed and specific a way as the part of the world we're seeing. The contours of the story and the characters do not have clear edges; every element that is included doesn't feel like it was included at the deliberate convenience of the author, but simply because it was really there. And what happens to the characters feels the same way — unpredictable, uncertain, and really happening in a way that does not feel true in many books (even very good books.)
All or most of this is to the credit of the main character's voice — maybe it's because I've been reading too much genre fiction and semi-fictional-biography lately, but it has been awhile since I read a book with a real, in-your-face narrative voice, complete with initially-frustrating dialect transcriptions.
Full of aliveness.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Self harm

liriodendron's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Drug use, and Death of parent

Moderate: Rape, Suicide, and Child abuse

cripreadsedinburgh's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Violence

celiaka's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Suicide, Sexual assault, Mental illness, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Eating disorder, Grief, and Self harm

Minor: Murder

hayleighlouise's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Rape, Drug use, Violence, Suicide, and Self harm