Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

The Book of Mother, by Violaine Huisman

8 reviews

candournat's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Infertility, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Death, Blood, Incest, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Eating disorder, Drug use, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Abortion, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Classism, Antisemitism, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Mental illness, Infidelity, Death of parent, Suicide, and Sexual violence

Minor: Xenophobia, Adult/minor relationship, and Vomit

biblioghoul's review

challenging emotional reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Infidelity, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Sexual assault, Incest, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Rape, Pregnancy, Mental illness, and Suicide

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Medical trauma, Fatphobia, Medical content, Domestic abuse, Addiction, and Body shaming

rcsreads's review

dark slow-paced

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

0.25

"The truth of a life is the fiction that sustains it."
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 At a mere 211 pages this somehow managed to feel like the longest book ever written. It was so incredibly repetitive and I was sick to death of hearing how rich daddy was! The characters despite being based on real people were incredibly one dimensional and impossible to care about. By the end I was skimming just to get it over with, if it had been any longer it would have been a DNF. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Grief, Incest, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Violence, Abortion, Body shaming, Car accident, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, and Toxic friendship

_chonklord_'s review

dark emotional reflective sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, Pedophilia, Addiction, Eating disorder, Suicide, Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Suicide

miraa's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

callmeamelia's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Abortion, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, and Rape

lwalla01's review

challenging dark sad tense medium-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

3.25

I don’t know how to rate this or really how to think about this yet. 
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Having sat with this book for a little while, I think this book isn’t organized as well as it could have been. This book is part true story and part fiction. It’s classified as fiction because nothing in it is fact checked. This is essentially told from the authors memory, and by what she thinks happened from her mother’s point of view. The section told from her mother’s point of view is very compelling. However, as a whole I didn’t find myself as engaged in the story. This was on the long list for the Man Booker International Prize in 2022, and of what I have read so far it’s the weakest of the list.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

jaymoran's review

dark emotional reflective sad slow-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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Death of parent, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, and Suicide attempt