Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Suicide Notes by Michael Thomas Ford

167 reviews

asteria_6179's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Suicide attempt

kates_cupcakes's review against another edition

emotional tense slow-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

2.5

Really cheesy tbh, it’s a very YA book and it written what feels a bit transparent where you can see the reasons behind everything. There are difficult moments in the book and I really wish it had more of an ending than it did. I found myself feeling let down by the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Homophobia, Rape, and Self harm

Minor: Vomit

gabi_715's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad fast-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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, and Suicide attempt

semilys02's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring tense fast-paced

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

4.75

I would give it a 5/5 but i’m mad at how much it made me cry. I needed to take several breaks from this book…. however it was a fast read because i was so interested!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

br3anna_'s review against another edition

dark funny fast-paced

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

3.5

So yeah! I got done this book today!

Pros: I flew through this book like no other 
I related with a lot of things
I'm glad Jeff had a sense of humor throughout the entire book. 
These characters had personalities

Cons: But was Jeff likable? Not really. 

He was played a victim when he literally did the same thing to Sadie. Man also kissed his best friends boyfriend unconsensually.

If anything? Karma's a bitch. If you ask me. 
That whole thing with Sadie and Rankin wasn't the best to sit through. It was pretty rough.

Got a little teary-eyed, but I expected to sob.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual content

Moderate: Self harm, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

felixhenry's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Homophobia, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

feelsattack's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad 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

4.0

"I can't wait," I said as I stood up. "Oh, and by the way, you need a haircut." As I turned to leave, I saw him reach up and touch his hair. Score one for Jeff, I thought as I shut the door behind me.

After that I had to go see old Cat Poop. The first thing I noticed was that something about him looked different. "You got a haircut," I said once I realized what it was."

I wanted him to say that I'd been right about his needing to deal with his hair, but instead he launched right into therapy time.

All in all, it was a pretty good day. For one thing, I got Cat Poop to cut his hair, which I think is a totally huge achievement.

"I'm interested in hearing what you think," said Cat Poop.
I waited a minute before I answered. "What I think is that the goatee you're trying to grow looks ridiculous.," I said. 
He looked surprised. Then he glanced at the mirror that hangs on one of the walls.  "See?" I said. "Honesty isn't so great, is it?"

Cat Poop (who by the way shaved off the goatee, so that's another point for me).

I am so sick of the now-standard witty, snarky, constantly sarcastic main character in YA. It's one of the few things that makes me DNF a YA book (because this trope is almost like some weird YA-exclusive thing). I didn't hate it this time though because considering this book's subject matter, it comes off more like a coping mechanism and a way to deflect so that the MC would never have to talk about himself. It works. And it's actually funny (most YA books fail to be funny with this kind of MC, it just comes off as annoying). 

One thing that greatly shocked me was the surprise sexual content. I don't read much YA but the ones I've read so far don't have any sort of sexual content. But this one was a shock. I get that it's important to the MC's development but in a young adult book... that's, you know... targeted towards a demographic of young people, probably around ages 12-18... sexual content is not appropriate. Maybe for people aged 15-18 but there are still kids that are 12-14 that will read this. I also don't like sexual content in my books so this really took down the rating from 4.5 to 4. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

little_rat's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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

0.5

This was nothing like I had expected this book to be. The content was an extremely hard read and not in a good way. This book sexualized young teens and mentions rape as more of a sexual encounter rather than what it was, rape. The adults characters in the book brush it off and never take the incident seriously. 
Apart from the sexual content the book didn’t go on to talk about mental health in very much depth as one would expect when picking up this book. 
Overall just disappointing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment

tvgirl's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Homophobia, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Minor: Toxic friendship

urf4vpisces's review against another edition

dark hopeful sad fast-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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Suicide attempt, and Outing