Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

219 reviews

dstone6298's review against another edition

mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, Blood, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Suicide, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

purplatypus's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Gun violence and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Child death, Rape, and Alcohol

mbelle97's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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, Gun violence, Violence, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Child death, Kidnapping, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

content warning: cults, religious zealots

chelly_reads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Death, Gun violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Abandonment, and Pandemic/Epidemic

melissafrench's review

dark hopeful 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

4.25

I honestly wasn’t ready for this book to end when it did. I wanted to spend more time in this world and with these characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Infidelity, Suicide, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape

chelsealauren17's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, and Pandemic/Epidemic

rosa_lina96's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

3.5

A haunting, somewhat bittersweet book about life after a global pandemic wipes out a good 98% of humanity (which becomes somewhat harsher in hindsight after going through the debacle that was Covid, but I digress). The writing was tight, I have to say. Poetic and meaningful, and the jumps back and forth that we got timeline-wise actually seemed to make sense to me. I'm also just a sucker for stories that deal with how humans can band together (or vice versa) in times of great strife, as well as speculative fiction about post-apocalyptic scenarios, and the main characters being part of a traveling symphony of performers just managed to scratch some itch within me to a satisfying degree. I'd honestly love to see that subject matter handled in more post-apocalyptic stories. You're telling me there's simply no performance art to be found anywhere after society collapses? No way for people to just take their minds off of how shitty their situation is even for a couple of hours? I call humbug. 

Rating it a bit lower because there were certain plot points that didn't end up being as well-developed as I thought they could be--what about these "ferals" that we keep hearing about, are they crazed from the illness or something else, and what the heck happened outside of America throughout this entire societal collapse, and are there larger settlements outside of this very particular region that we deal with in the book, and how exactly are they managing to cultivate food without certain technological measures? Some characters felt rather woefully underdeveloped as well, and I'm sorry, but the identity of who the cult leader more than likely was was a twist I saw coming from a mile away. 

Still, it was a pretty solid book. I look forward to reading more from this author sometime in the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Suicide and Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Child death

jillianselene's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Suicide, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Animal death, Kidnapping, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Gun violence, Rape, Medical content, and Pregnancy

rhall19's review against another edition

emotional sad tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Gun violence

kaiyakaiyo's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

not much to say about this one! if i had to compare, sea of tranquility was much more interesting and i liked it better, but this is a solid book as well! 

im sleepy so no long review; the writing is very nice on the eyes and the shifting perspectives actually really enhanced the story instead of just breaking it up for forced suspense like in some books. would recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicide, Religious bigotry, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Child abuse

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault