Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Better the Blood by Michael Bennett

6 reviews

nelldiaz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

5.0

This book is going to sit with me for a while. It brought up a lot of feelings for me as a Māori. Highly recommend but check the content warnings

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Colonisation, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Genocide, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide

alisonvh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book is so good! I’m so grateful to the Nerdette podcast for making me aware of it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Blood, Classism, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Violence, Addiction, Death, Colonisation, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, and Genocide

jessylou's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Police brutality, Violence, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Death, Kidnapping, and Medical trauma

bookshelf_al's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Gore, Violence, Colonisation, and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent and Police brutality

mysterymom46's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-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: Violence, Colonisation, Murder, and Suicide

Moderate: Confinement, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Racism, Police brutality, Drug use, Death of parent, and Mental illness

Spoiler

use of a sharp weapon to hack and stab victims

internationalreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Colonisation, Suicide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Police brutality, Infidelity, Animal death, Genocide, Murder, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Child death, Classism, and Kidnapping