Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

Suicide Notes, by Michael Thomas Ford

10 reviews

daringreader13's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad 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

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Hate crime, Sexism, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Gore, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, Sexual assault, Drug use, Rape, Vomit, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

ecravens's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Death, Cursing, Suicide, and Sexual content

Moderate: Homophobia and Bullying

fiaca's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Child abuse, and Addiction

rileywilson's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Sexual violence, Medical content, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Outing, Injury/injury detail, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Addiction, Murder, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Pedophilia

theo_the_newt's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Homophobia, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Sexual content, Mental illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Child death, Child abuse, Alcohol, Addiction, Death, Drug use, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Eating disorder, Vomit, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, and Outing

mattheo's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad

• 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: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/injury detail, Mental illness, Medical content, Murder, Outing, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Vomit

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Drug use, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

the_satirical_librarian's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

planetarysilver's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

rating: 4.5/5

i read this book in the span of 8 hours without planning to. once i got sucked in, i couldn’t stop until i finished. the plot twists were very well executed imo because i didn’t expect them at all, but they weren’t outlandish and they made sense in the story. i really enjoyed this book and i’m still thinking about it and about jeff and sadie and martha and all of them. 

- spoilers ahead, beware! -

the only reason i gave it a 4.5 is because of rankin; i understand why he was important in furthering the plot, but i wish it could have been done in a way that didn’t entail rankin basically molesting and attempting to rape jeff. or, if that part was kept, then i wish the author would have gone more into depth about it instead of just kind of brushing it off as “sexual assault but not” and then diving straight into jeff being gay. i don’t know if this is making sense, but i just mean that i wish that subplot had been done better.

anyway, i loved this book, and i definitely see it as one im going to come back to every once in a while just to see jeff and amanda and martha and sadie and juliet and bone and cat poop again :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Homophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Outing, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

ellereadsalot's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-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

I was expecting to relate to the main character's struggle with mental illness and trauma. I knew this was going to be a dark book going into it, but what ended up triggering me was not anything to do with Jeff's stay on a pysch ward. It was

Spoiler

the gay panic/sexual assult scenes

that really upset me and made the rest of the book impossible to enjoy. The consolation prize is that there is a happy ending, which I was expecting and hoping for.

I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. The only reason I finished it was because I fell for the sunk cost falacy. I'll be returning this to Barnes & Noble asap.

Trigger warning for: sexual assault, slurs, suicide/suicide attempts, and many more

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Homophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Vomit

tstiltsxx711's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Mental illness, Homophobia, Forced institutionalization, Eating disorder, Death, and Bullying