Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

14 reviews

stonefruits's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Miscarriage, Lesbophobia, Confinement, Infertility, Suicide attempt, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Gore, Emotional abuse, Animal death, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

angelino's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Body horror, and Gore

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Pedophilia

moodreader89's review against another edition

adventurous 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: Child abuse, Death, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Religious bigotry, Gore, Misogyny, and Body horror

Moderate: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

elysianbud's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Went into this expecting a bit more survival and a lot less love story, but overall I still enjoyed it. 
Quick read, finished it in one day. 
I do like that at the end of the book the main character hasn't magically fixed everything in society through the power of gutsy honesty, and that it takes a more realistic approach of showing small steps towards change instead. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Vomit, Confinement, Gore, Body horror, Death, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Stalking, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Suicide attempt, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, and Suicide

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cannibalism, Lesbophobia, Outing, Physical abuse, and Homophobia

tays_books's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Misogyny, Murder, Pregnancy, Blood, Death, Child death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Violence, Sexism, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child abuse, Excrement, Drug use, Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexual content, Stalking, Pedophilia, Animal death, Cannibalism, Animal cruelty, Lesbophobia, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, and Vomit

Minor: Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, and Infertility

megan_j's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad 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? Yes

4.0

I enjoyed this. The start was slow but it progressed better towards the end. All of the characters are well rounded. At first it felt a bit TOO handmaids tale/hunger games esque but I feel like it lost that towards the end and felt more original. Although there were a lot of characters, they all had individual personalities and they didn’t get mixed around in my head like they sometimes can. Everyone was lovable and well rounded. A true piece of feminist fiction.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Deportation, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Lesbophobia, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Pregnancy, War, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Murder, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

jane_austyn's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

4.5

Spoiler

pregnancy

Spoiler

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Confinement, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Medical content, Misogyny, Violence, Suicide attempt, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, and Toxic friendship

loveislandkentuky's review

adventurous dark reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny

Moderate: Death

Minor: Cannibalism, Violence, Child abuse, Miscarriage, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Murder, Blood, and Torture

ayllareads's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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: Suicide attempt, Murder, Gore, Emotional abuse, Death, Blood, and Suicide

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Pregnancy

scburhans's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.5

A solid social horror book which a good amount of social commentary.
I think this book, while not perfect, is a great introduction to the social horror/speculative fiction genre. Not every detail was perfect and there was some trite and cliche moments, but overall, it had some good messages, and the plot was engaging and entertaining. 

**Slight, indirect spoilers below this point**

Personally, I would have liked a little bit less emphasis placed on the forbidden romance here and more placed on the girls in their actual grace year. It felt a little "you-need-a-man-to-save-you", which I know wasn't intentional, but did irk me a little. I'm sure it was meant to be a freeing thing for Tierney, but I've gotten tired of the whole "girl-has-to-become-sexual-and-immodest-to-be-liberated-or-empowered" thing. It's just swung around to a whole new level of misogyny where you have to be promiscuous or bare a lot of skin to be feminist and that's frankly a crock of bullshit. I will, however, take it in good faith that that was not what Liggett was attempting to say here. 
Other than that, I liked most of the characters and did enjoy their personal development arcs - I do just wish we had seen more of the other girls that Tierney, Gerturde, and Kiersten. The plot was interesting and engaging and it was fun to find all the little homages to classics like The Handmaid's Tale - especially the nod with the red ribbons and white veils. I enjoyed it! And I definitely would be interested in seeing a continuation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Suicide attempt, Torture, Pregnancy, Violence, Misogyny, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Toxic friendship, and Vomit

Moderate: Animal death, Medical content, Adult/minor relationship, Cannibalism, Grief, Infertility, Physical abuse, and Stalking