Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Notte americana by Marisha Pessl

58 reviews

albernikolauras's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

While this book might have fallen victim to my level of distraction in life, I do think the pacing is off. Kicking off as a thriller investigating the death of the daughter of an eccentric horror movie director, the book begins delving deeper into the occult. I consumed the first half of this rapidly, but struggled with the last half.

I found the ending rather disappointing and it didn't feel satisfying after the work I put in to finally finish the book. I'm glad I read it, and I can see it working well for others, but not my favorite.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide

batcaves's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

auntiejamie's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

2.0

A cruel book full of Boomer logic and pearl-clutching. Tediously long and overbearing; the story, the places, and it's characters are not nearly as interesting as to justify this toilet paper scroll that is hellbent on telling you just what's wrong with "today's generation."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Suicide, Terminal illness, Transphobia, and Violence

chellyfishing's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide

immovabletype's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Suicide, Blood, and Alcohol

lady_bountiful's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

solouncapitulomas's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

first of all I have to say it, I fucking love long book but this book DID NOT need to be that long, a solution? removing most of the main and secondary characters, let's be honest ashley and cordova where the best characters and all the additional ones we never saw again.

I was so bored with McGrath's story but I did appreciate the parallels between him and cordova and their daughters, but the other to characters? unbearable, the author could've focused on the lore of cordova and on Ashley (a character like rebecca from daphne du maurier more interesting in death and with the power to eclipse every other character without even trying) instead of fucking introducing two boring people (nora and hopper) with no business being there and maybe if those two stayed like another one of the additional people we met along the way they would've been bearable but no, they had to join the hunt and be useless 

wtv, I finished this book before the end of October and that was that

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, and Transphobia

Moderate: Cancer, Racism, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Car accident

jlk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Mental illness, Suicide, and Blood

phantomgecko's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

An ending just ambiguous enough to really make the novel great. Are the questions really answered or  ???

idk, this was an interesting read. Long, but it wouldn't have been as satisfying shorter. I saw someone put this on a list of books they weren't smart enough to read, and I kinda get why. There're layers here, but it's enjoyable even at a high level.

Characters annoyed me at first, but they grew on me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Suicide, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, and Fire/Fire injury

siriface's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, and Trafficking