Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid

88 reviews

asha_m's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Death, Sexual violence, Homophobia, Suicide attempt, Sexual harassment, Terminal illness, and Car accident

marslotus's review against another edition

emotional mysterious 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

4.25

While I will admit this was a page-turner of a book, the writing styles of Monique's perspective versus Eveyin's never felt harmonial to me. That is to say I found myself drawn in when reading about Evelyn and unintentionally annoyed at Monique's character (until the ending of course).

She's introduced as honest and forthcoming, but is often presumptuous when speaking to Evelyn. It almost feels like two different people wrote the book, as I felt talked down to when explained bisexuality and LGBTQ+ issues by Monique's perspective. I would expect this from a teen novel, not from this story.

But I can't deny my eyes watering at least twice near the end of the book. This is a good story, maybe my personal preference is just getting in the way of fuly enjoying that. I didn't feel it had a strong start, but I'm glad it got better the farther along I read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Car accident, Death, Biphobia, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, Cursing, Death of parent, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Cancer, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Outing, Suicide attempt, Chronic illness, Homophobia, Terminal illness, and Physical abuse

Minor: Sexism, Violence, Child abuse, Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Sexual assault

lilla_j's review

emotional hopeful inspiring 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: Alcohol, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Death of parent, Transphobia, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Death, and Miscarriage

avaa_reads's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense 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

4.25

Everyone was telling me to “WAIT FOR THE PLOT TWIST.” The final plot twist (personal opinion) was initially shocking; then it wasn’t… However definitely still and interesting twist.
I also predicted three very large parts of the book- but I don’t hold that against the book because in all honesty I loved it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment and Sexual content

Minor: Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Addiction, Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Outing, Blood, Body shaming, Car accident, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

elliehaahr's review

emotional mysterious 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: Car accident, Child abuse, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Death, Toxic relationship, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Cancer, Homophobia, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Biphobia, Racism, Death of parent, and Death

itsgeesus's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

I avoided this book for the longest time because I feared it was overhyped for the sake of overhyping. But I shouldn't have, because it's very well deserved. In a lot of ways, it was magnificent. It was effortless to read and tough to put down. It's also been an incredibly long time since a book has bought me to tears, yet Seven Husbands had no problem; not once, but twice. This should be one on everyone's book list.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Grief, Domestic abuse, and Blood

Minor: Cancer, Abortion, Alcoholism, Death, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Outing, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Alcohol, Chronic illness, and Death of parent

aly141627's review

dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I loved this book and the way it was written. It made me laugh and cry at the same time. It's about women just trying to do their best while living their lives however they want and learning to be unapologetic about it, too. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Rape

maybephasing's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Car accident, and Biphobia

Moderate: Death, Infidelity, Cancer, and Terminal illness

Minor: Outing, Pregnancy, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

allielong19's review

emotional medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/injury detail, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Cancer, Lesbophobia, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Car accident, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Toxic friendship

chloelj27's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

Evelyn and all the characters were so fascinating in their own ways. Each relationship was different but it all fit so well in to the story. Of course, I definitely did not always agree with Evelyn’s actions, however I loved her. She was simply unapologetically herself and knew what she wanted and got it! As for Monique, her story didn’t quite captivate me and I did figure the revelation out beforehand, however I like the reason to why she was chosen to work with Evelyn. 

There was as many different challenges and scenarios bought into the book and all of which I’d me reflecting. You tend to forget how different things were 60 years ago and so this book provides that reminder as well as showing how these issues still show their faces in todays world too. 

The love, happiness and highs of this book was beautiful to read but the pain, heartbreak and loss of it really pulled at the heartstrings. I think there were some parts where I felt the story slowed and wasn’t all that necessary, while there were other parts I wanted a bit more focus on. However, even with just those brief scenes where I wanted more, they still made a hell of an impact! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Medical trauma, Infidelity, Car accident, and Injury/injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Domestic abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Cancer, and Terminal illness

Minor: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Abortion