Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

What Comes After by JoAnne Tompkins

62 reviews

kimveach's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide, Addiction, Vomit, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child death, Murder, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Animal death, Blood, Domestic abuse, Grief, Pregnancy, Self harm, Violence, Bullying, Gun violence, Toxic friendship, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Religious bigotry, and Sexual assault

Minor: Dementia

lingoreads's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death of parent, Death, Animal death, and Suicide

prairieraven's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Blood, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Death, Grief, Gore, Medical content, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Misogyny, Murder, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Animal death, and Bullying

areed99's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Rape

lizschultz24's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Grief, Sexual assault, Violence, Animal death, Death, and Suicide

amysrrls's review against another edition

sad slow-paced

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

3.0

I only finished this book because I hate DNF’ing books. But good god, this book felt so unnecessarily long. Also all Quaker and God stuff got to be too much as the book went on. But seriously, this book was just depressing with unnecessary detail about

dog deaths

and I didn’t find the ending to even be uplifting or impactful. It felt like a book written by someone who only ever wanted to write one book so they included every single reflective thought they’ve ever had of love, life, death, and grief and it didn’t feel cohesive. Basically I think this book could’ve been cut in half and it would’ve been much more enjoyable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Murder, Suicide, Rape, and Animal death

alyssagirardi's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Grief, Murder, Child death, Suicide, and Death

Moderate: Bullying, Rape, Abandonment, Violence, Animal cruelty, and Blood

christynhoover's review against another edition

dark hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• 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

4.5

This is a fictional work that depicts contemporary US Quakers accurately, IMO!

But putting that aside, plot-wise it's a mystery/drama story. And it neither pulls any punches nor fails to expose character flaws to daylight.

It oozes and breathes COMPASSION and understanding for everything that's humanly possible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Medical content, Sexual content, Suicide, Murder, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

saville08's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Murder, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

janicew9's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Animal death, and Body horror

Moderate: Pregnancy, Suicide, Domestic abuse, and Drug use