Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes

7 reviews

avisreadsandreads's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Vomit, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, and Abandonment

Minor: Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Police brutality, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Classism

inirac's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

 Wtf is this ending?

This one suffered from Chekov's Magical Realism. If Magical Realism is mentioned in Act 1 then it should at minimum be threat to happen for the rest of the book. It actually doesn't matter if it the world magic or not, but the main character should be questioning it more. This story had the potential to get much weirder and this leaves me disappointed. This is 100% going to be made into a mediocre tv show or movie and I will probably still watch it. 

At the least it's impressive it was a thriller without being extremely violent, gory, or focus on sexual assualt.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Grief, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death, Suicide, and Kidnapping

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

chilivanilli28's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-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: Addiction and Alcoholism

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Suicide

cawaza's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Suicide, and Alcohol

redefiningrachel's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Grief, Stalking, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Suicide, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Classism

stephbakerbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

This was a pretty mediocre thriller in my opinion. It kept me interested but nothing surprised me or made it feel memorable. That being said, I do love those kinds of thrillers on audio, and this audiobook was also excellent, so I wasn't disappointed in this mediocrity.

I do though get annoyed at the "everyone thinks she's crazy and doesn't believe her" trope in thrillers, and this one does have that. That was my main frustration with this story. I'm just so tired of thrillers only being suspenseful because they rely on their women characters being unbelievable. CAN WE HAVE A NEW TROPE PLEASE AND THANK YOU.

Thankfully, Maya spends a lot of the book alone doing her own investigating, and thus not interacting with the people who don't believe her. So I was able to get past it. I did like Maya as a character and I enjoyed the past timeline, where she's a teenager and we see her friendship with Aubrey and Maya learning about her father and her Guatemalan heritage. I didn't really care for any of the other characters.

The ending I felt was unsurprising—at one point, I just did not see any other answer to the mystery so it went the route I was expecting. It was fine.

Anyways, the book did what an average book does—kept me interested long enough to finish the story and feel some satisfaction from the wrap-up before disappearing into the fog of stories that exist in my mind from all the books I've ever read.

Thank you to Libro.fm, Penguin Audio, and the author for my ALC.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Death

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Suicide

bookdragon217's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction and Alcoholism

Minor: Suicide