Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

53 reviews

kp_brynn's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Suicide attempt, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

abi_laura's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug use, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Antisemitism, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Sexual harassment

clarxvizconde13's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

More of a psychological fiction than a thriller, open ended, and there are a lot of loose threads. Good for a quick read though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

eveningreverie's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-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

3.0

Very weird. I don't know if I liked it. I didn't hate it, for sure, but there was so much thrown in here that didn't seem like it added to the themes in the slightest. The ending felt like Bervoets was going for something very impactful based on the themes that had already been extensively played around with, but it only served to confirm what I had already been feeling about the main character. Even the frame of this story felt confusing—why would it end where it does if this is all essentially a deposition in a legal case that has had to be extracted from the protagonist essentially against her will? Why would this be the message the book leaves the reader on? What the heck does non-consentual sex have to do with flat earthers? I can make some extrapolations, but I wish Bervoets gave me more to work with.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm

Moderate: Rape and Sexual violence

Minor: Animal cruelty and Suicide attempt

mariekejee's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Het boek is een brief van Kayleigh aan een advocaat over haar tijd bij een bedrijf waar ze content moderator was. Ze begint het boek met commentaar op alle kennissen die te pas en te onpas vragen wat nou het ergste is wat ze heeft gezien, niet uit interesse in haar maar uit een perverse sensatiezucht. 
Ironisch genoeg is het precies die fascinatie, of sensatiezucht, die het maakte dat ik dit boek door wou blijven lezen. Niet voor de gruwelen die ze gezien had - ik kwam er al heel snel achter dat ik daar überhaupt maar liever snel overheen las - maar om te weten te komen waarom ze weigert te praten over haar tijd bij Hexa.

Gedurende het verhaal kom je er steeds meer achter

hoe dysfunctioneel haar relaties zijn, tot je er achter komt dat ze zelf een onbetrouwbare verteller is

. Ik had haar paar zinnen over Sigrid in het eerste hoofdstuk (verkeerd) geïnterpreteerd

als Sigrid die zelfmoord pleegt

, dus die spanning bleef voor mij het boek lang hangen. De horror zit hem uiteindelijk niet in wat ze bij Hexa meemaakt en hoe ze daar behandeld is, maar in de manier waarop haar ervaringen daar invloed hebben op de manier waarop ze de wereld interpreteert. 

Het boek laat een aantal eindjes open, en dat is begrijpelijk voor een verhaal van minder dan 100 bladzijdes, maar ik had het niet erg gevonden om wat meer te zien over haar laatste dagen. Daarnaast houd ik niet van open eindes, en ik was zo in het verhaal dat ik niet zag aankomen dat het boek eindigde waar het eindigde. Het is dat de pagina's genummerd waren, anders had ik gedacht dat ik een bladzijde miste. 

Dit is een van de beste boekenweekgeschenken die ik gelezen heb, en ondanks dat ik het al een paar dagen geleden uitgelezen heb, blijft het in mijn hoofd spoken. Actueel en kort maar krachtig, ik kan het van harte aanbevelen aan eenieder met een sterke maag.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Self harm, Antisemitism, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Violence, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

It goes into some wild conspiracy theories, a lot of them antisemitic.

rionstorm's review against another edition

challenging dark sad 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? It's complicated

3.75

Definitely check the trigger warnings for this one. Parts of it are predictably difficult to read, especially some of the descriptions of gore (although they are brief). 

The most interesting part of this book to me is the insight it gives into how content moderation affects the people who do it - both in terms of the impact on their mental health, and in terms of some of the material they are viewing 

having the intended radicalizing or desensitizing effect, even if they're not someone who is coming across the material organically.

I thought it was also quite interesting to see how the material being viewed affected each person,

for example how the others' antisemetic radicalization was incomprehensible to Kayleigh, even as she was herself being desensitized to sexual violence to the point of possibly re-enacting it, seemingly without any self awareness.

If you're interested in the consequences of the growing volume and consumption of difficult material on the internet, online radicalization, or the way trauma is increasingly built into the experience of someone who uses the internet, you might like this book. Be warned though, it's pretty grim the whole way through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Gore, Racism, Self harm, Sexual violence, Violence, Antisemitism, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Gun violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Islamophobia, Stalking, Lesbophobia, and Fire/Fire injury

lela's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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

3.0

Interesting concept but the characters/relationships were a bit flat for a stream of consciousness novella. I feel like most of what I will take away is just about content moderators and not the actual plot/characters....

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

laurengeorgia's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Antisemitism, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Rape

scheller_bg31's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Trafficking, Mass/school shootings, Cannibalism, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

westcdf's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-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

4.0

This book was really good, it has a very shocking ending. I will say that I didn't particularly love the narrating style, it felt a little gimmicky. I do think the overall plot was excellent and the development of the characters was great. Made me feel queasy after I read it. Check the TWs for sure. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Antisemitism, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

A very triggering read. The content they discuss moderating is somewhat disturbing. Plot contains clear sexual abuse.