Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Sleepwalking by Meg Wolitzer

31 reviews

san_dra's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Suicide, and Grief

Minor: Cancer, Incest, and Vomit

savvylit's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A

2.0

The good: relatively well written and empathetic towards very specific new adult feelings of anxiety and depression.

The bad: I found the book boring and naive. Mostly because I am certainly not the target audience at all. To begin, the initial trio of girls obsessed with death were full of intrigue. But Claire left the other "death girls" behind so quickly. Additionally, I didn't realize quite how young this entire book would feel. Wolitzer was twenty-one when she published Sleepwalking and it shows. I think I might have enjoyed this when I was somewhere around that same age. At 32, though, Sleepwalking just seemed like a shallow story striving too hard for meaning. I've read much better debuts by young authors.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Grief

vera_nikolajevna's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, and Grief

Minor: Domestic abuse and Drug use

alylentz's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

Yes. YES. YESSS! Girlhood is about obsession and death and then realizing it's Not About You. Five stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Suicide, Medical content, and Suicide attempt

hunkydory's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, and Pregnancy

yiuve's review

dark sad slow-paced

3.75

I liked the book, but there was many things i didn't. 

Like the ending. It has this happy ever after vibe, that doesn't fit the book. Like Lucy's mother is all better and dancing around after years of depression all because this girl who reminds her of her dead dauther can to clean their house for like a week?
Also what happened to Laura? She lost her mind and we forgot about her?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Self harm, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Pedophilia

cassettetaped's review

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Cancer and Terminal illness

hollsbookshelf's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

inceptionistbooks's review

Nothing wrong with it, it just didn’t catch my interest to want to keep reading. I might pick it up again at a later date.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness

Minor: Suicide

chiya's review against another edition

funny reflective sad 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

** character development isn't strong. there was a change to the characters but its not drastic. in my opinion there wasnt much of difference with them from when the story started, but there was a change and i feel like that counts for something. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Drug use and Vomit