Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi

115 reviews

breannajanay's review against another edition

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Suicidal thoughts

ktkeps's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

I can’t do the suicidal ideation right now. I gotta protect my peace. I might come back to this eventually. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Chronic illness, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Medical content, Sexual content, and Transphobia

hilpaul's review against another edition

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

janeanger's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

This is a complicated, beautiful book. Written as a series of letters to a variety of recipients, real, imagined, and culturally significant, there's something super intimate and challenging about each of them. I would probably give it a 4.5, but there were some parts that made me want to crawl out of my skin -- kind of in a good way, but also in a horrible way. So Imma keep that .5 in my own heart. That said, Emezi is beyond talented with words. I'm going to keep reading them!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Cannibalism, and Suicidal thoughts

peachani's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Dysphoria, Transphobia, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Blood, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Sexism

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Racism

northernzephyr's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Dysphoria

Moderate: Medical content, Transphobia, and Violence

Minor: Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Animal cruelty

souplover2001's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

akwaeke emezi IS a god ! favourite letters include mutilation, execution, deathspace, canon, deity, worldbending, maps, holy, undefeated, and regeneration !!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Transphobia, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Homophobia

elizea's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Transphobia, Violence, Gore, Body horror, Medical content, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

laurareads87's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

5.0

Dear Senthuran is beautifully written, extraordinarily intimate, and covers a lot of ground: spiritedness + spiritual life, gender, mental health, childhood, career, fame, interpersonal relationships, navigating life amidst humanity.  Extraordinary & like nothing I've ever read before (though those who've read Freshwater will certainly find some familiar content here); also a very difficult read - I'm sure I've forgotten some relevant content warnings.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

Moderate: Racism, Blood, Violence, Sexual violence, Homophobia, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, and Body horror

starrysteph's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring slow-paced

4.5

Beautiful. Deeply poetic, deeply vulnerable, and deeply illuminating. 

Having already read most of Emezi's work, this memoir gave me a lot of clarity around the concepts explored in their books (specifically Freshwater). 

CW: suicide attempt, suicidal thoughts, transphobia, rape, sexual assault, mental illness, medical content, dysphoria, grief, infidelity, toxic relationship, chronic illness, self harm

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Transphobia, Infidelity, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Sexual violence, Rape, Mental illness, Medical content, Grief, and Dysphoria

Minor: Car accident and Cannibalism