Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

You'd Be Home Now by Kathleen Glasgow

9 reviews

fanchera's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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: Drug abuse, Child death, and Addiction

Moderate: Abandonment, Toxic friendship, and Car accident

Minor: Cancer, Suicide, and Alcohol

mgj19's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

You’d be Home Now

Kathleen Glasgow

“Listen, he said. The way you have to think of it is this: high school is like the ocean, like when we went to Mission Beach. There’s a lot of it and it seems scary, like if you go too far out, you’ll never get back. You’ll lose sight of land. And remember all the times we went under and came back up and how great it felt, the sun on our heads, like we beat something? Everybody here is just a different kind of sea creature. Some of them suck, literally and figuratively. Some of them are so beautiful you can’t believe they even exist. And some have scary teeth and weird floppy things, but they’re beautiful, too. And some want to eat you, because that’s just the way it is. I’m sorry about that. I didn’t make the rules if the ocean. The ocean, like high school, have its own laws. But remember this: sometimes the waves knock you down and it send like you isn’t have the strength to push back up, but you do, because whatever the water takes down, it gives back. But you have to adapt or die. Now, go swim.”

(Joey, page 94)

Meh, I didn’t particularly see the point of this book and I don’t have too much to say. But I completely agree with what Joey says about High School/ Secondary School. I am just particularly unlucky and go to a school full of chavs. lol

I’ve seen the reviews, and this book honestly sounded alright. This book was raw but it says that many people are dealing with stories like this in the US. I struggle to believe this but I’ve never been so I don’t know. 

Emmy seemed a bit bland to me. A bit naive possibly. Joey seems like a character with potential. He felt like an underdeveloped character. 

This was definitely better than How to Make Friends with The Dark but still very much a 3 star book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Drug use

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Suicide

asspen's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, Drug use, Grief, Suicide, and Chronic illness

cloud_animals's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Child death, and Suicide

goldenslug's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Body shaming

Minor: Suicide

romajstorovic's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

When I finished this book I cried for nearly twenty minutes. I’d already been crying for a long time before that. This book hits incredibly close to home and managed to smack you right in the face with such incredible realism and emotion. Almost everything Joey and Emmy said and thought - throughout the book, yes, but particularly right at the very end - struck such a note with me. I fell in love with Joey almost instantly because he was like me. He was messed up and unsure of how to help himself, and this was shown in such a real and honest way that I couldn’t help but love him. Emmy, too; the way she’s desperate to help her brother despite the fact that there’s really nothing she can do is so raw and painful. Absolutely incredible, and a book I will be pushing onto as many people as I physically can.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Grief, Car accident, and Addiction

Moderate: Sexual violence

Minor: Suicide, Self harm, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, and Medical content

_jasper_394's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted sad fast-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

2.0

It was an okay book. This book was very much YA but with mature content which didnt make much sense. I wanted to read it for it's dark subjects and themes but the language and sentence development felt so mundane and boring like something of a young children's book. These two aspects didn't really fit since the darkness didn't go well with the lack of literary devices. Overall this book was okay but there wasn't much plot development and the writing wasn't that good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Addiction, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Child death, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Bullying

Minor: Suicide and Cancer

addidason's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Addiction, Mental illness, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Car accident

Minor: Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Terminal illness, Suicide, and Self harm

eleanor_r36's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Addiction, and Car accident

Moderate: Sexual harassment

Minor: Self harm and Suicide