Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Boktjuven by Markus Zusak

165 reviews

lamolleteslg's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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? N/A

4.75

wow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Violence, Murder, Genocide, War, Torture, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Hate crime, Cursing, and Physical abuse

kate001's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Death, and War

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Blood

Minor: Suicide and Child death

bea2001's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Abandonment, Death of parent, Grief, Genocide, Child death, Death, Religious bigotry, and War

Minor: Car accident and Suicide

fritzer's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny inspiring reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

Loved it. Won't lie, was kinda bored at some parts and felt like more insight might've been given in the backgrounds but it was lovely.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, War, Child death, Colonisation, and Cursing

Moderate: Suicide

epohlig's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective 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? No

5.0

This book was amazing! I loved how it was told from Death’s point of view, because when you think about WWII, you think about tons of people dying, but not so much death itself (as a person or otherwise).

Also, WWII material rarely has you feeling sorry for the Germans, because they’re all lumped into a Hitler-supporting mass, so I appreciated the different perspective here - not backing the bad people, but showing that not every German was like that then either. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Religious bigotry, War, Genocide, and Hate crime

Minor: Child death and Suicide

deluna's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring sad fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Death, War, Death of parent, Antisemitism, and Grief

Moderate: Child death, Suicide, and Sexual harassment

atraumatizedwriter's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, War, Death of parent, and Death

Minor: Suicide and Child death

berrytart's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.75

This book is amazing! At the start it was very slow, but once you start reading through the pages, it sucks you in. Having death as the narrator was a beautiful idea!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Xenophobia, Cursing, Hate crime, Antisemitism, Child death, Death of parent, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Blood, Misogyny, and Suicide

gh1's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Death, Genocide, Grief, Physical abuse, War, Violence, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Hate crime, and Torture

Minor: Death of parent, Classism, Medical trauma, Self harm, Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, Child death, Medical content, and Suicide

sadiaa's review against another edition

dark emotional

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Death, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Cursing, Hate crime, Genocide, Grief, War, Xenophobia, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts