Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh

12 reviews

directorpurry's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Blood, and Stalking

Moderate: Physical abuse, Suicide, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Fire/Fire injury

bookedbymadeline's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

4.0

Read as a buddy read!  Sooo weird and unpredictable, I didn’t fully understand what was going on at times. I had a little trouble feeling fully engaged at some points because it can drag a little and I felt myself losing focus/forgetting what I had read some chapters.

Beautifully written and I marked sooo many passages! I loved the complex, flawed characters and unreliable narrator aspect. This was a Character driven novel that explores vulnerability of people, array of human emotions (such as envy, obsession, and desire), and that we all just want to be loved/seen!

The book could get very dark/violent especially towards the end so do check content warnings. I can’t believe this is loosely based on an actual historical event 👀

I felt like I wanted more, everything comes to a head so quickly and then it’s over. Didn’t love this as much as The Water Cure, but much better than Blue Ticket! A phrase that comes to mind to describe this novel simply is: “be gay, do crime”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Animal death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicide, and Pregnancy

Minor: Confinement and Infertility

kaydot's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

So dark, so sexy, so unhinged 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Suicide, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

laurahartfield's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Fire/Fire injury

serena_hien's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Suicide, and Murder

j_squaredd's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, and Violence

mstall_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

This might be my FAVORITE book of 2024 and we're only 3 weeks in. A lot of other reviews state that this book was "vibes only" with no plot, and like if you can't appreciate good literature just say so. Cursed Bread is a story of a woman sick with desire who wants to consume a beautiful newcomer and her husband who just settled in their small French village a few years post WW2. 

This story was inspired by a true series of events, and Sophie does a magical job of making you feel like you're reading personal accounts from those days. Writing in first person usually reads as lazy and sloppy to me. It's very rare that first person narrative is done truly well, and Cursed Bread is that exception. You feel like you are reading the personal journal of a woman going slowly mad with boredom, lust, jealousy, and disgust. I highly, highly recommend. I will be thinking about this book for years. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Mental illness, Suicide, Vomit, and War

capacitorofflux's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.5

The character of Violet reminded me a lot of Indigo from “The Last Tale of The Flower Bride” which reads similarly to this. Despite being a short book, most of the first half or even the first 2/3 seems unnecessary.

A chilling, mad tale based on a real life event.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Suicide, Blood, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Sexual content, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

rly's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Suicide

Minor: Pregnancy

gibetal's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Mental illness, and Suicide