Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Suicide Notes by Michael Thomas Ford

19 reviews

imaginethisreader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• 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

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt

mattie5's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Medical content

Moderate: Drug use, Homophobia, and Blood

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

fa1ryts's review against another edition

challenging funny reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Fire/Fire injury

rileywilson's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Medical content

Moderate: Homophobia, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Murder

headachesince03's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Addiction, Biphobia, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

pond_newt'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
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Minor: Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Outing, and Sexual harassment

matheo's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Alcohol

planetarysilver's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

rating: 4.5/5

i read this book in the span of 8 hours without planning to. once i got sucked in, i couldn’t stop until i finished. the plot twists were very well executed imo because i didn’t expect them at all, but they weren’t outlandish and they made sense in the story. i really enjoyed this book and i’m still thinking about it and about jeff and sadie and martha and all of them. 

- spoilers ahead, beware! -

the only reason i gave it a 4.5 is because of rankin; i understand why he was important in furthering the plot, but i wish it could have been done in a way that didn’t entail rankin basically molesting and attempting to rape jeff. or, if that part was kept, then i wish the author would have gone more into depth about it instead of just kind of brushing it off as “sexual assault but not” and then diving straight into jeff being gay. i don’t know if this is making sense, but i just mean that i wish that subplot had been done better.

anyway, i loved this book, and i definitely see it as one im going to come back to every once in a while just to see jeff and amanda and martha and sadie and juliet and bone and cat poop again :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Outing, and Sexual harassment

waytoomanybooks's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-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

I was expecting to relate to the main character's struggle with mental illness and trauma. I knew this was going to be a dark book going into it, but what ended up triggering me was not anything to do with Jeff's stay on a pysch ward. It was

the gay panic/sexual assult scenes

that really upset me and made the rest of the book impossible to enjoy. The consolation prize is that there is a happy ending, which I was expecting and hoping for.

I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. The only reason I finished it was because I fell for the sunk cost falacy. I'll be returning this to Barnes & Noble asap.

Trigger warning for: sexual assault, slurs, suicide/suicide attempts, and many more

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Suicide attempt