Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor

11 reviews

lousyreader157's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Alcohol, Dementia, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Bullying

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Cursing, Suicide, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Animal death, and Gore

Minor: Abortion, Car accident, Child abuse, and Self harm

rochelleisreading's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Murder, Emotional abuse, Death, Self harm, Blood, Sexual assault, Violence, Death of parent, Cursing, Bullying, Rape, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Alcohol, Abortion, Car accident, and Classism

A boy is raped orally. It is very disturbing, and the event is brought up a handful of times afterwards.

sarahbarrie29's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Self harm

mysterymom46's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Terminal illness, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Pregnancy, Gore, Self harm, and Child abuse

mentions and experiences of early onset Alzheimer’s; SA on page; prejudice of a person’s physical appearance; incidents of relations between young girls and older men; dismemberment; graphic scenes of physical abuse among minors

trifi's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Rape, Self harm, Animal death, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse

megpadams's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Lots of thoughts! 

• Wtf was that ending! I low key expected it because there were hints all the way through but it was so sudden! 
• I really wanted it to turn out to be supernatural 
• Still not entirely sure about the dreams- trauma or was Ed starting to show symptoms of dementia like his dad? 
• Did we ever find out who was murdered in the playground a few generations before?
• Was the traveller man at the fair actually the reverend? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Alcoholism, Animal death, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Terminal illness

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-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? Yes

4.0

This book was weird in the best way. The ending creeped me out but after having read the entire book, I couldn’t even be that shocked. The story illuminates how no matter how good we try to be or claim to be, we all do bad things and some of us do more heinous things than others.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Pregnancy, Rape, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Violence

yossy_cookie's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Fatphobia, Murder, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence

Minor: Self harm

ollie_again's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Bullying, Murder, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Rape, Child abuse, Child death, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, and Self harm

Minor: Abortion, Gore, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Dementia, and Animal death

cryptogay's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Man, this book. Spine-tinglingly suspenseful, and incredibly creepy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual assault, Violence, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Car accident, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Vomit, Self harm, and Abortion

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