Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

153 reviews

chloesnotscared's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Violence, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Grief, Murder, and Outing

Minor: Suicide

lwp525's review against another edition

reflective tense

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Suicide, Murder, and War

rcoveney'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Suicide

sinewton's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Murder, and War

strugglecity's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Genocide, and War

Moderate: Homophobia, Violence, and Colonisation

Minor: Suicide, Torture, and Police brutality

anoke's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective 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

4.5

Very interesting read, something different. Really liked the mechanism of magic realism in the story. The second person style of writing took me a while to get used too and, paired with the descriptive writing style, this book took me longer than usual to finish. Very much worth it though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, and War

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, and Vomit

allisonz6's review against another edition

slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Homophobia, Suicide, Violence, Murder, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide attempt

lynnebetweenthelines's review against another edition

challenging dark

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Suicide, Violence, Police brutality, and War

Moderate: Torture and Islamophobia

rosalind's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Infidelity, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Car accident, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Homophobia, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, Genocide, Blood, and Lesbophobia

lauralee_lu's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Suicide