Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

De Shining by Stephen King

28 reviews

phvntomstvrs's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

annaofjesup's review against another edition

dark tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Racism, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Hate crime, Vomit, Car accident, and Abandonment

maddibev's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-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

This was a very tense book riddled with mystery and a page turner from the beginning. I honestly never wanted to put it down as the momentum of the events never seemed to slow down and I was always anxious to read what was next. Highly recommend for horror and Stephen King fans.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

sterregeertsema's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-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

Lots of details in this book which made me super invested in the characters and the story.  The characters in the book really came to live. Also the way the horrors where described really made me freak out. 

especially the scene with the lady in the bathtub in room 217 gave me shivers. 

Well written and scary

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, and Murder

Moderate: Suicide

zombiezami's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

5.0

A well crafted novel. They aren’t made quite like this anymore

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, and Car accident

Minor: Child death, Genocide, Slavery, Cannibalism, Colonisation, and War

itsmeyseniab's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Racial slurs

Minor: Gun violence, Infidelity, and Suicide

smeyer's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Suicide, and Violence

annikw's review against another edition

tense 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? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Murder

Minor: Cannibalism

molly_greenshields's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Ummmm so who knew I'd be a HUGE Stephen King girlie? Not usually my kinda genre but boy, did this book take me by surprise. I was absolutely blown away. Time to finally brave the film?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

abithoughtful's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

2.5

I so wanted to love this, and I did find it reasonably enjoyable but I do feel it could have been 200 pages shorter and been just... better. I saw the film first and I definitely prefer the more in depth character study the book gives us, and I also enjoyed that the nature of the haunting of the Overlook was less abstract and more coherent, and the symbolism is much tighter, but during the last 100 pages I found myself skimming through the padding (which I think is King trying to build tension with limited success) to get to the real meat. Not enough dense emotion for my taste in horror, verbose with too much mundane filler between the scares. It was fine but if this is among King's best regarded works then I'll be sticking to other writers. Also super male gazey (Wendy is a well rounded character but her breasts are not relevant to the story, Stephen) and racist as hell.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Car accident, and Gaslighting

Minor: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, and Vomit