Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

1729 reviews

lizvai's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense slow-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

3.5

Slow burn with awful characters and lots of passages which ended up being completely irrelevant, but such a dark and unique read with a surprising plot

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Incest, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Domestic abuse

Minor: Rape and Death of parent

mcspillsted's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Incest, Suicide, Toxic friendship, and Classism

katyrin's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense slow-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Suicide, and Murder

mikcarrington's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

I might come back to my rating for this. 
I also might not.
It feels like it'll stick in my head a while. Like a bad dream.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Suicide, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Incest

janienejulia's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, and Racism

Minor: Rape

skeleton_ashleigh's review against another edition

2.5

It's a really well written book. The characters are all insufferable. One wants to randomly

rape

his friend. Another has surprise

incest

. Then characters felt 2D with their problematic behavior. 
The book should have been half as long as it is. 
Also, while I usually love when authors read their own books... this is pretty badly done. Bunny's accent was painful. 

It felt like a book that wanted to teach us something, but wasn't quite able to make it there. The only character I liked was the token woman. Because someone has to exist to be

abused

. 

But again, really pretty prose.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Suicide

Minor: Incest and Rape

bruscheett's review against another edition

dark hopeful mysterious reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Grief, Murder, and Classism

Minor: Incest, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Suicide

lucyroberts's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, and Incest

dianapui28's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense slow-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicide, Grief, Murder, and Alcohol

anushareflects's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

A riveting tale of dark academia, and murder, with an inquiry into the idea of ethics. Dark and mysterious, it follows the lives of 6 university students studying Greek literature, pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable in search of a loftier goal, until it all descends into evil. The writing is thoroughly engrossing, filled with references to literatures and texts from around the world. Utterly memorable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Incest, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Murder