Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Heaven by Mieko Kawakami

70 reviews

jana_grimm's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Bullying, and Blood

Moderate: Suicide and Eating disorder

Minor: Sexual violence

erickauribe's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

4.0

The writting is incredible, and it was interesting to see the different POV on why the people act the way they do, and how we justify or give meaning to our lifes. A lot philosophical ideas were thrown into the narrative.

Spoiler

However, the bullying scenes were a bit too harsh to read, I understand the meaning of these scenes, it was just hard to go through

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Bullying, Rape, Sexual content, Suicide, and Violence

timedothwasteme's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Bullying, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Blood, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Suicide

junzoin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

honestly, i love the first half of the book a lot. it was painful and really eye opening to bullying until i got to the second half where everything got way too uncomfortable for me to handle. the ending to me was pretty unsatisfactory as well but overall i would still recommend this to others just because of how eye opening it is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Suicide, Bullying, and Vomit

Moderate: Sexual harassment

Minor: Sexual content

mainon_'s review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Death, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Physical abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Self harm and Torture

Minor: Vomit and Sexual violence

o3ovin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

The strength of this novel lies in its  character’s interpersonal relationships or lack thereof. Humanity seeps through every page, even when the novel makes you question if that’s a good or bad thing.

This is an amazing quick read that manages the careful balance of asking questions about life, death, and morality while being told through the perspective of a child believably.  I would highly recommend checking the trigger warnings before picking it up as it does get incredibly heavy at some points. I will definitely be reading more by Mieko Kawakami.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Death, Bullying, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Ableism, Cursing, and Medical content

Minor: Death of parent and Classism

char1otte's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Violence, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

emma__t's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Suicide

filmnoirz's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

idk how to feel. extremely graphic and the story ultimately felt like it came to nothing in the end. the characters seem to act and sound much older than 14 years old and i really hate how the mmc doesn’t even get a name.

Spoiler

there’s also two mentions of the mmc masturbating that felt completely unnecessary.

Kawakami presents different philosophical perspectives that are meant to challenge the audiences thinking in regards to abuse and the human response, but this just fell incredibly flat for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual assault

kajasversion's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.25

I absolutely adored the writing, I think it was truly phenomenal especially the vivid descriptions and the metaphors. However the story itself was… weird? Like I don’t get how a 14 yo bully can think the way it was presented in this book, and also I felt  a lot of the time that I was being pushed an agenda or a way of thinking from almost every character. And the bullying scenes really did not have to be so graphic, especially considering how many there were. It was actually traumatising just reading about it since you spend the majority of the book reading about how they are being abused and not actually spending half as much time on developing them as a person and exploring how they are feeling. Idk it just felt flat for me and it had great potential at the beginning, however I was greatly disappointed. 

TW: attempted rape

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Suicide