Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

6 reviews

kylieqrada's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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

4.0

As beautiful as this book is on the outside, it absolutely holds up upon reading!! An at-times over my head discussion of consciousness and its various forms with multiple perspectives following seemingly unconnected plots that come together at the enddddd?! Ugh. Love.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Death, and Trafficking

Moderate: Suicide, Animal death, and Mental illness

Minor: Self harm

booksbutmakeitgay's review

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Kidnapping, Suicide, Animal death, Blood, Slavery, Vomit, Death, Mental illness, and Self harm

lbelow's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Violence, Gun violence, Torture, Confinement, Slavery, Murder, and Kidnapping

Minor: Suicide

emmalouisereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious tense slow-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

4.5

This is a fascinating look into the similarities and differences between the ways humans communicate with each other, and other species .. including technology.

There’s a heavy focus on octopuses which I particularly enjoyed. I’ve always been fascinated by how/why octopuses are so intelligent when they are not very social. This book explores what might happen if they were…

This book touches on so much, what it means to be alive, the concept of communication and the consequences of the technology we’ve built.

If you’re a fan of sci-fi, I think you’ll like this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Trafficking, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

mlewis's review

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, Slavery, and Trafficking

Moderate: Murder, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide

Minor: Self harm

mayaaaaa's review

challenging emotional informative mysterious reflective 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

5.0

I loved it, I haven’t read a book this strange in a long time. I felt often like it was talking directly to me. It wasn’t flawless, but for what it accomplished I think it was close enough to it. The science stuff was really interesting, the environmentalism was beautiful. The philosophical parts were good too, sometimes profound, although I think it did get a bit heavy handed and repetitive around the 3/4 mark. Overall fantastic book! I really recommend it. 🐒 🐙 🦑 🔬 💸

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Self harm and Suicide