Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

6 reviews

mdxo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Racial slurs, Forced institutionalization, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Child death, Mental illness, Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: War

drvanatta's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Even if you've watched the movie first, this book is still worth a read. Regardless, it's. Greatly tense and intriguing novel that reads easily, maybe even too easily. If this book had an apparent flaw, it'd be the lack of subtleties because of the writing style and word choice. This does in no way detract from the story, however, if you are able to put yourself into the mind of the characters.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content and Child death

Minor: Suicide, Violence, War, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Murder, Death, Suicide attempt, Drug abuse, and Mental illness

hanreadin's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Gun violence, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Alcoholism, War, Ableism, Cursing, Murder, Racial slurs, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Child death, and Suicidal thoughts

mushroom_princess's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs

Moderate: Suicide

cri_sis's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Medical trauma, Medical content, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Racial slurs, and Mental illness

ashaye's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

2.5

Shutter Island is probably one of my favorite films I’ve ever seen. I love thrillers and movies that mess with your head. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that it is also a book, and I thought “how exciting I get to have more internal dialogue for Teddy.” This might be one of a handful of books where I argue, that the movie is better. Not just for the fact that DiCaprio’s character manifestation of Teddy is phenomenal, but also that the movie chose to leave out the consistent unnecessary racial slurs and descriptions. This is not an old book. This is not in an era where this was considered “the norm” (regardless if it was or not, it shouldn’t contain them). Overall I found the book near impossible to get through and had to actually rewatch the movie to help me get through it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Suicide, and Murder

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Mental illness