Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok

15 reviews

jamiejanae_6's review against another edition

mysterious sad 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Infidelity, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

mysterymom46's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, and Bullying

Moderate: Death, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Racial slurs, Toxic friendship, Racism, and Classism

Minor: Sexism

knitterscasket's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Racism, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, and Domestic abuse

serendipitysbooks's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.5

 Searching for Sylvie Lee is the story of the Lee family, Chinese immigrants to the US, whose high flying daughter Sylvie goes missing in the Netherlands when she goes to visit the dying grandmother who raised her. With the Dutch police not showing much interest younger sister Amy begins to investigate. Along the way she discovers Sylvie’s life wasn’t as perfect as it appeared, unearths a whole lot of family secrets, and finds strength and capabilities she didn’t know she had. This felt a bit flat for me and I often struggled to distinguish Sylvie’s and Amy’s storylines. Ma was the only character whose voice stood out. Still I was invested in finding out exactly happened.
 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Suicide

Moderate: Domestic abuse

katherine_alexis's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity

Moderate: Suicide, Incest, and Xenophobia

readchelsearead's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Child abuse, and Incest

jamesflint's review against another edition

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Incest, Domestic abuse, Racism, and Racial slurs

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Suicide

stlkatiek's review against another edition

mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.25

Part mystery and part family drama, this story centers around a missing Chinese-American woman who returns to Holland (where she spent her childhood) and goes missing. The story is told in three perspectives, with flashbacks from the missing woman, present day events from her sister who went to Holland to find her, and a mix of both from her mother. It dragged in places and the ending was a bit much, but overall it was a good enough read.

Read it Because:
It had been on my TBR forever

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide and Racism

Minor: Incest and Physical abuse

minhdodo's review against another edition

1.0

 Spoiler alert!!! And trigger warning

Spoiler

At the end the story, suicide was took very lightly. It was made as a way to resolve the characters problem and conflict rather than a tragedy

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide

breanamichele's review

challenging emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Domestic abuse