Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

15 reviews

galaxies's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

1.5

Is the funny actually in the room with us? I didn‘t spot it anywhere.

The Introduction in this book calls it „darkly funny“, „delightfully awkward“ and „pitch-perfect observations about the human condition“. I disagree with all of that.

I never understood what was going on with Gilda‘s brain and her thought processes and found the book relentlessly depressing and anxiety-inducing.

The first few pages of the book are not representative for the rest of the book.

I would only recommend this book to people who want to read about someone who is deeply depressed, anxiety-ridden, in constant panic attacks and who thinks about killing themselves

on nearly every page

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I do not recommend this to anyone who is in a mental health crisis or who struggles with their mental health in general.

The only reason I‘m not giving this book one star is because the first few pages weren‘t bad and I was moved a bit during the last few pages.

1.5 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, and Vomit

Minor: Animal death, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Self harm, Violence, Stalking, and Murder

orlagal's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Outing, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

shawshaff's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

unfortunately related to this character a little too much ! I found her dejected, anxious thoughts somewhat comforting, it felt less lonely to read such similar thought processes I myself have experienced. I really enjoyed this book, though I would handle with care! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Religious bigotry

mpbookreviews's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Death, Self harm, Violence, Vomit, and Grief

theothergrl's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Suicide, Vomit, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death, Self harm, and Violence

dfbballinger's review against another edition

funny sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Transphobia

maeverose's review

This is a book I really should’ve dnfed for the sake of my mental health but for some stupid reason kept reading.

The main character, Gilda, is very mentally I’ll. Some parts of this book are really intense, and if you struggle with death ocd, anxiety, hypochondria, suicidal thoughts or alcoholism I’d be cautious about reading this. Gilda’s panic attacks are described in detail, and they’re very frequent. She also has a full on mental breakdown by the end of the book that is also described in detail and drawn out for a while. It isn’t explicitly stated at any point but she is clearly autistic/audhd coded, and it seems as if she is undiagnosed in the story, she questions why she is the way she is, and definitely doesn’t seem to be aware that she’s autistic. It was difficult reading her experiences, clearly seeing that she’s autistic but with her not knowing and struggling. It was relatable at times, but in an upsetting way more than a nice way. For me, at least. I can see how some readers would enjoy this and feel seen in the main character.

Funnily, like Gilda I feel other people’s emotions pretty strongly, so reading a book like this was probably a bad idea for me. I have similar anxiety and this was triggering for me. I nearly dnfed this several times because of it, and tbh I probably should’ve as it ended up just putting me in a bad mood. I kept reading because I really enjoyed the first half, it was still intense but in a more lighthearted dark humor kind of way (it reminded me of fleabag), but the second half is much more depressing and upsetting.

This book is a very accurate representation of ocd, anxiety, undiagnosed autism and mental illness. If you want that and can handle it, I’d recommend it, just please check content warnings first.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, Stalking, Car accident, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Self harm, Suicide, Religious bigotry, and Murder

Minor: Sexual assault, Excrement, Mass/school shootings, Cannibalism, and Abandonment

Graphic: Body dysmorphia, hypochondria, death ocd, intrusive thoughts, dissociation Moderate: medical malpractice (kind of) Minor: metaphorical cannibalism

talia1353's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, and Car accident

alacuesta's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Car accident

Moderate: Alcoholism, Homophobia, and Self harm

Minor: Suicide and Violence

Family conflicts that may be triggering Depressive episodes described in great detail

farrahwho's review

dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

peak character development is when gilda finally washes her dishes after months of not doing so because of depression

in all seriousness, i really enjoyed this book. which feels a bit weird to say because it’s about someone who has an overwhelming fear of death but can’t stop thinking about it. gilda is perpetually anxious, depressed, and has no idea what she’s doing most of the time or what her future will look like.

the story is written in an stream of consciousness style, told through vignettes of gilda’s day to day life and inner musings. almost as if you’re reading someone’s journal entries. the prose reminds me a lot of chemistry by weike wang, which is another one of my fav books. 

definitely not a book for everyone, but it was meant for me! i will say to tread carefully if you aren’t in a good headspace given the topics addressed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Self harm, and Violence

Minor: Medical content, Religious bigotry, and Car accident