Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Impulse by Ellen Hopkins

34 reviews

missrmaxwell's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-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

4.75

This was one of my favorite books growing up. Rereading it I understood why and how I saw myself in each of the characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Murder

marcusbryan777's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Abortion, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment

dizpig's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Dysphoria, and Classism

Minor: Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Abortion, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pregnancy

raebaebae's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

vermethys's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Minor: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Abortion

haven101g's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, and Grief

jordan_noel's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

1.75

There were a lot of moments I really loved in this book, but they always got ruined by the extremely sexed-up characters. Potentially serious discussions about suicidal ideation and the characters’ trauma gets overshadowed by the unnecessary and overly sexual relationships between the three main characters. Characters didn’t seem to care about each other beyond romantic attraction and there wasn’t much personality in them aside from their mental illness. Characters seemed to be attracted to each other solely because of their mental illness, appearance, and just plain presence.

Additionally, the characters just didn’t feel that different to me. They spoke the same and unless I was really paying attention to who’s talking or the character was explaining something about their past, I often had no idea which one was talking.

Lastly, I had some qualms about the way the facility and the therapists were portrayed. Was the facility juvie or a mental center? The therapists felt like they were brainwashing the patients rather than trying to help them and it wasn’t portrayed too negatively. While I feel Ellen Hopkins writes about the emotions of the more extreme difficulties of life effectively, I don’t think she handles the healing part so well. It just felt unrealistic and aimless, both for the characters that had happy endings and somehow also those that didn’t.

I felt that this book had the potential to be really great, but these parts just kind of ruined it for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Death of parent

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Abandonment

on_your_raedar's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense 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? Yes

3.5

The way it was written is everything. The short chapters, the style, the bouncing from character to character. All of it was intentional and really added to the story. 

I remember reading this author in middle/ high school. Not sure I was supposed to be but I remember loving this author's books. I enjoyed this book in the sense that it was not a difficult read but I feel like it didn't land the way it did in the past. 

The content is challenging, check trigger warnings, there are a lot of triggering topics in this book. I haven't experienced the things the main characters have so I'm not super sure how well these topics were handled but no immediate red flags came out to me. Just be mindful as you pick up this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Suicide attempt and Murder

Minor: Suicide

let_therebebooks's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

“Life is all about change. If it were static, think about how boring it would be. You can’t be afraid of it, and you can’t worry that you’ll mess things up. You deserve good things.” 

Wow this book was intense. I had to put it down a few times because of the content that it’s focused on. This book follows three characters who are in a psychiatric hospital after they all attempted suicide. As the book goes on, we see their treatment and learn more about their past traumas, and there is every possible horrible thing that could happen, happening to these characters. 

This book is told in verse so it makes it pretty quick to get through. I always found the verse format to be more powerful, especially if we are discussing topics like this. 

It’s a good but dark book. I will absolutely be picking up the sequel but I caution everyone to look into the many trigger warnings for this book before diving in. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Emotional abuse

erinwolf1997's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicide

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Medical content, Abortion, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Terminal illness, and Islamophobia