Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox

23 reviews

ai_lin's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Death of parent

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual assault

thebriellle's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Bullying, Rape, and Vomit

cademia's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

3.75

This book dehydrated me via tear ducts. Genuinely love Fox’s writing style.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual assault, Suicide, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

spoody's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death of parent, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

Minor: Child abuse

ehnaz's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, and Death of parent

imaginefishes's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, and Death

Minor: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Suicide

The book subverts expectations between the 2 main characters, and the

sudden end to Part I felt really shocking and sudden to me (which… makes sense, considering mental illness spells don’t happen at regularly scheduled intervals).

Apart from that, the description of dissociation felt very accurate (from the limited few times I’ve dissociated), and the sort of “depression slump” Biz slipped into resonated with me. I really wished I could go on the same adventures they went on, given my sheltered upbringing in the city. At the same time reading it from Biz’s POV really made me question the reality of the book while at the same time deepening my fear of psychosis. Overall the story is hopeful, but it gets really, really horrible before we get to that point with Biz.

lunarleila's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense 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

3.5

Sad read, but focus on mental illness and wellness makes it unique for a fiction novel.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide

tahjah's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Suicide

ecravens's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide, Grief, and Death of parent

gagne's review against another edition

sad slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Suicide