Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Big Swiss, by Jen Beagin

34 reviews

annamaria_ouioui's review

dark funny 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

5.0

This novel is brilliant, hilarious, unique. I loved every bit of it and fell in love with the perfectly imperfect characters.

I really enjoyed the subtle millennial slander. They deserve it.

I’m looking forward to reading more from Jen Beargin. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Mental illness

Minor: Toxic relationship, Blood, Alcohol, Drug use, Addiction, and Death of parent

tomboytunes's review

dark funny 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: Suicide, Violence, and Suicidal thoughts

helenamichelle's review

adventurous funny reflective 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Infidelity, Addiction, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Blood, Body horror, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

ahill33's review

challenging emotional reflective sad 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

4.25

Well this was a wild ride. It had me laughing at some points, and blushing at others. However, it was more serious then I expected it to be. Definitely an interesting story. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Physical abuse

Minor: Animal cruelty

raptorq's review

challenging dark emotional reflective

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Gun violence, Animal cruelty, Stalking, Mental illness, Injury/injury detail, Grief, Emotional abuse, Blood, Violence, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Animal death, and Excrement

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Drug abuse, Bullying, and Addiction

mmccombs's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

3.5

Some really interesting characters and themes but like kind of too unbearable/unlikeable/flat out mean. I’m a big fan of unhinged girlie books, but this kind of felt needless and some of Greta/Sabine’s offhanded remarks hit incorrectly. Characters can be racist and cruel cause people are too, but I’d like for the satire/motivation behind it to be more intentional. Also, with the narration of this book I kept forgetting Greta was much older than Big Swiss, which is maybe the point, but whenever it mentioned that Big Swiss was 28 I was like… wait really? Mostly I enjoyed what this book had to say, but the execution wasn’t quite right I think.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Suicide, Animal cruelty, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Rape

Moderate: Stalking and Injury/injury detail

lafocareta's review

dark emotional funny 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: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Violence, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Death, Animal cruelty, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Toxic friendship, Infidelity, and Abandonment

studydniowka's review

challenging emotional funny tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Świetna dekonstrukcja współczesnej instytucji psychoterapii i jej wpływu na funkcjonowanie młodych (szczególnie) ludzi. Niesamowicie zabawna i niesamowicie smutna refleksja nad kobiecą homoseksualnością i systemowi przymusowej heteroseksualności, który trzyma w swoich ryzach kobiety, nie pozwalając im na otwarcie się na swoje homoseksualne pragnienia i jak w konsekwencji, dzieje się to dość późno w życiu kobiety, po wielu latach w hetero związkach. Bardzo, bardzo dobra książka.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Animal cruelty, Sexual harassment, Blood, Violence, and Torture

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Drug abuse and Eating disorder

bgoodbookclub's review

challenging funny medium-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? Yes

3.0

Read for Bad Bitch Book Club's April 2023 book.

I don't know how to review this book. I am glad that it is a book club pick so that I can talk through it because what. This is one of those books that I'm left thinking 'What just happened?". I understand it but I don't understand the reasoning for it? I am dying for someone I know to review it so that I can see what others think.

There is a racist comment in this book, as well as a fatphobic comment and that's just what I caught. I see a lot of people bringing attention to them and I do want to acknowledge that. 

Overall, it just didn't do it for me. It was hard to see the purpose of this book, it was very stream of consciousness and rambly. Based on other reviews, it does seem like this is pretty characteristic for the author, however, I have not read anything else by the author so maybe it's just not for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

hazelgirl21's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Injury/injury detail, Suicide, Violence, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Gun violence