Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Caraval by Stephanie Garber

227 reviews

tarnaflake's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Child abuse

Minor: Suicide

aharper's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Child death, Kidnapping, and Suicide

Moderate: Confinement, Forced institutionalization, and Abandonment

hiddeninfantasy's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Blood, Physical abuse, Violence, Murder, Self harm, Death, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Alcohol, and Grief

bumblebree1903's review against another edition

medium-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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Suicide, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Violence and Alcohol

Minor: Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Sexual assault, Abandonment, and Rape

nxpe's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

4 December 2023: 4 stars

I can't stop thinking about this series, so it deserves to be at least a four star.

28 November 2023: 3.75 stars

This was really fun. For some reason, I went into this expecting nothing more than just a magical carnival, so I was very surprised to say the least. 

I really enjoyed Scarlet as a main character, and her love for her sister, Donatella was a beautiful relationship to read about. Watching them go to these extreme lengths to try and protect each other was truly heart warming.

I also really enjoyed the love story. Scarlet's love interest,

Julian

, is also a really great character, and I really enjoyed his personality. I hope I get to see more of them and their relationship in the next two books, even though

I know the focus switches to Donatella in this next book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Suicide and Murder

isabelgnagler's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

2.5

It was an enjoyable read. The descriptions lend themselves much better to a screen adaptation than a book as the author continuously gets caught up on descriptions that detail the story. Scarlett is not a bad FMC. Ending was predictable.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Sexual harassment and Suicidal thoughts

halierivers's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I was so excited for this! And I did enjoy it but also what the actual f*** was that ending? It almost makes me not want to read the next two. 

It had so many cool elements but the freaking colors as emotions got repetitive SO fast. I also think this would be better a horror fantasy novel. Not a romantasy. Felt like A LOT was left unaddressed by the author. 

I would be TRAUMATIZED if I was fully convinced my sister and crush died bc of me and we’re just skipping over how much that would fuck someone up???

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Physical abuse, and Domestic abuse

giadena's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

YOOOOO I COMPLETELY LOVED THIS BOOK!!!! review to follow, right now I'm full of excitement ahhhh

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Murder and Blood

Minor: Alcohol and Abandonment

readwithsophsx's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Physical abuse, Child death, Child abuse, and Murder

savanah's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

It’s kind of like if the author took the Original Peter Pan (the dark one where Peter kills the lost boys when they’re too old), Alice in wonderland, and just a touch of terror/horror genre, gaslighting, mixed in with with the most cliche YA tropes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Suicide, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Murder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Abandonment