Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

City of Glass, by Cassandra Clare

11 reviews

mxbluet18's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Trigger warnings for City of Glass include: homophobia and hate crimes; incest (except not quite), sexual assault, child abuse (recounted),domestic violence recounted, hallucinations,
graphic suicide & self harm recounted; pregnancy & childbirth mentioned; blood & gore depiction, including blood-drinking. Physical injuries,
dead bodies and medical content;
forced starvation; grief & loss depiction; deaths, murder & attempted murder; knife violence & stabbing; torture, poisoning, kidnapping and imprisonment; war themes & battle scenes.
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I wasn't really paying a great deal if attention to this book as I was listening to it quite honestly. I've read this one before, and therefore already knew the major plot points before they happened. For the most part there weren't really any surprises in it, except for a few scenes I'd forgotten happened.
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I'm glad I reread it because I do like this series but ultimately I just needed to read it to be able to get on to other books in this series I haven't read yet or don't remember all that well, like The Dark Artifices series.
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As sad as this book might be for someone reading it for the first time, I didn't really feel any kind of emotions towards the events of the book despite knowing those things are sad things to have happened. And I don't know how to feel having finished the 3rd book in the main Mortal Instruments series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Murder, Death, Child death, Child abuse, Injury/injury detail, Suicide, Torture, Body horror, Self harm, Grief, Violence, War, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, Abandonment, Blood, Homophobia, and Medical content

m00nmins's review

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Incest, Death, and Child death

Minor: War, Suicide, Blood, and Torture

jaynovara's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Torture and Murder

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Death of parent

micaelamariem's review

adventurous hopeful inspiring mysterious fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

Loved the epic battle scenes and the descriptions. Maybe a little hard to get into at first 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Classism, Bullying, Grief, Suicide, Abandonment, Child abuse, Death, Murder, Death of parent, Child death, and Injury/injury detail

tiana_king's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

So much action! Also just when you thought you have the whole story about Jace and Clary straight, yet another plot twist shows up. Or two. I look forward to where we go from here. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gaslighting, Injury/injury detail, Death, Grief, Murder, Confinement, and War

Moderate: Mental illness, Blood, Child death, Incest, and Pregnancy

Minor: Child abuse, Suicide, and Torture

chloe_silk1810's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Slow book to start but then really picked up. Mainly building the story and then plenty of detail once the scene was set. Get through the first section and then it really heats up! Plot twists galore! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Blood, Child death, Violence, Miscarriage, Injury/injury detail, Suicide, Physical abuse, and Murder

passingclouds's review

funny lighthearted tense 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? Yes

2.75

I have so much to say... 

First of all, I hate Clary as a character. She really shouldn't be the protagonist of this series. There are no redeemable qualities about her. The only reason why I'm still reading this series (and will finish it) is that I already have all the books.

Second of all, the fact that all it took for

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Jocelyn to come back is a book

is ridiculous to me. Saving her mother was Clary's #1 priority during the series so far. However, all that we see is

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Clary giving the book to Magnus, and then Jocelyn's back

... It feels like it was the simplest things in the world, but I clearly remember people saying no one knows

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what Jocelyn took, and how to wake her up

. I guess, if we got Magnus' POV

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of trying to make everything work

, I wouldn't be so disappointed, but here we are.


Third of all, we never actually get to see what happens to

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Izzy

. All we get is that

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Sebastian is holding a hammer

, then it fades to black. The next time we see her? She seems completely fine physically,

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crying over Max's body

. We only find out what actually happened from Simon over 70 pages later! But by far the best part about it is that she was supposed to be

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knocked out WITH A HAMMER

, but at no point do we get any kind of description of

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Izzy feeling unwell or dizzy, being hurt, bleeding, or anything else

. It's like it never happened.


Next thing: not much actually happens. There's so little plot... within over 500 pages the only things that actually happen are:

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1. Clary finding that book, and giving it to Magnus. 2. The towers stop working. 3. A 10-minute battle. 4. A party.

But I'm actually glad I read this book cause we got a lot of Jimon moments, so there's that 😁

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Suicide

bellthecat's review

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Confinement, and Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Injury/injury detail

Minor: Suicide and Medical trauma

Spoiler

TW: Description of coffin birth (past).

maruu_t's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

La verdad que el libro me terminó gustando muchisimo más de lo que me gustaba. Amo la evolución de casi todos los personajes, más que nada la de Jace. 
Saber que todavía me quedan el 4to y 5to por leer me dan ganas de llorar.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Child abuse, Grief, Incest, and Suicide

piperclover's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

cute background couples, queer relationship, plot twist

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Grief, Murder, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Torture, and Child abuse