Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea by Rita Chang-Eppig

4 reviews

dragongirl271's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Trafficking, and Murder

Minor: Child death and Rape

anniestar's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

Listen, I wanted to like this, but I found it incredibly boring. Shek Yeung feels reduce from her historical power, more of a victim than someone who rises above the circumstances she was forced into. The ending was also very abrupt and dissatisfying.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, and War

Moderate: Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Chronic illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Suicide attempt, and Colonisation

nicoleisalwaysreading's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective tense slow-paced

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

2.0

my book club and I agreed this is marketed incorrectly - it's not an action-packed pirate adventure! it's a detailed and well-researched historical fiction account of a real Chinese female pirate and so has a lot more to do with strategy, politics, gender, and the generational effect of violence.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Xenophobia, Trafficking, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

mefrias's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad 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? No

4.25

Entertaining and enthralling story about Chinese piracy, and of course, Chinese pirate women! What else could you want?!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail