Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho

101 reviews

avasbookmark's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, and War

alliyyamo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

This has me nostalgic for my friends that aren't currently in my orbit. Too real and ugh makes me feel old. Jane and Fiona felt very real to me and I'm sad I don't know what happens next in their lives.

I lack closure but it feels open like real life. The ending kind of felt rushed like we had this moment of almost confrontation that feels really out of nowhere and it happens in like the last 5 pages. Feels a bit too forced.

I wish it was a tad longer.

I feel like the last couple of decades of the characters were tiny glimpses that I didn't get to fully live in with the characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Death of parent, and Outing

Moderate: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Cancer, Abortion, and Abandonment

Minor: Self harm

amberinpieces's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Chronic illness, Infidelity, and Vomit

Minor: Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Outing, and Classism

katypillar12's review against another edition

lighthearted reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

2.5

I enjoyed reading this book, but don’t really understand why the author wanted to tell these stories? thinking of them as short stories definitely helps, but the whole thing was very disjointed and the timeline was confusing with no resolution at the end. I did like the characters and the places where their friendship was the main focus 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

tenten's review against another edition

hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide

mhelmick28's review against another edition

challenging reflective fast-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

characters unlikeable in a way that put me off at times, wanted this to be so much more than it was

Read the content warnings - some things weren’t necessary graphic but they were sudden/dropped in what felt like a careless way at times and the characters’ apathy towards these things really threw me off 

Jane’s dad’s death really felt like it came out of nowhere and then the emotionally impacts of that weren’t fully addressed until the last few pages of the book. I really wanted Jane’s journey with her sexuality to feel more interconnected with her dad’s but it felt seemingly random to me that they were both queer

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Sexual assault, and Suicide

erika102's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Death, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Death of parent

chromiumboron's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Abortion

auntsarah's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

The only item I would have liked added is a note of how much time passed between chapters. But that might have been on purpose after reading one of the lines in the last chapter (not a spoiler) - “We were moving fast now, everything sped up; the years seemed to fly past like nothing.” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

evelyneh's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and War