Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli

15 reviews

rhubarbpi3's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-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

I liked this book much more than I thought I would, but the pacing was inconsistent, the writing felt fan fiction-y at times, and I wish that it hadn’t felt so locked up in Eve’s head. The dialogue was also generally stilted. I thought the questions it brought up were interesting, however. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

sarikinss's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-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

4.0

I - wow. This book is a book everyone should read once, and maybe once again when they are experiencing any type of grief from loss of a loved one. Onyi Nwabineli somehow put indescribable feelings into the words that could closest describe them and that in and of itself is a gift to the world, and I truly believe it will be a comfort to those in similar situations. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

Minor: Alcoholism

catwhisperer's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Alcohol

yinkao's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-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: Suicide

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Self harm, Blood, and Vomit

currently_introverting's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Blood, and Grief

rockin_robyn's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful sad slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Self harm, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

caitgiam's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide, and Blood

mayrow26's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Classism

katrod's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-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? It's complicated

3.0

Sometimes I really shoot myself in the foot by not reading or remembering book blurbs.

This book is about a woman who just lost her husband to suicide, and having recently lost a friend to suicide, it wasn’t the right choice.  Proceed with caution if you’ve lost a loved one or have any difficulty with mentions of suicide.  

The grief in this book is overwhelming.  It’s like you’re swimming in the ocean and all of a sudden you’re being pummeled by wave after wave with no relief or break to come up for air.  It feels like drowning.  

There wasn’t much else in this book except the processing of her grief and I just wasn’t ready.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, and Grief

taykealook_'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? No

5.0

I shed a tear during every single chapter of this book, softly weeping at my desk while Adoja Andoh narrated probably the saddest book and ever read and with her soothing voice, and a friend basically holding my hand during our buddy read did I make it out alive. Onyi Nwabineli is a powerhouse author and I don’t know if I have read her equal. The rawness which Eve walks through her grief, has fundamentally changed the way in which I will hold space for people grieving in my own life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide, and Grief