Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Täällä oli susia by Charlotte McConaghy

66 reviews

carolinefran's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Medical content, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Grief, Gore, Rape, Murder, Sexual assault, Violence, Sexual violence, Infidelity, Infertility, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, and Animal death

Moderate: Abortion, Dementia, Drug use, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Suicide, Alcohol, Blood, Cursing, Misogyny, Police brutality, Stalking, and Vomit

noveltay's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.75

The literal ONLY reason this isn’t getting 5 stars, is because I think the vocabulary of Scottish people was not used correctly. Lots of research into wolves, climate change, etc just to have slang from locals botched up.

That being said, the rest of this book was phenomenal. I read Migrations by this author first, and both live up to the “hype”. I like how she uses flashbacks in her stories to keep a mystery.

I caught on to the twist early on, but it has nothing to do with the writing. I think the writing actually had me second guessing my thoughts on multiple occasions.

If you are planning on reading this, check content warnings prior!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Violence, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, Death, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Sexual content, Grief, Gun violence, Suicide, Blood, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Rape, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, and Body horror

jharcarik8's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Suicide, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Domestic abuse

perifaerie's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Animal cruelty, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, and Animal death

Minor: Suicide

voxvenati's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

Really beautiful book about nature and conservation and people. I cried several times during the book, and very much enjoyed the narrator’s reading of the novel. It does start a little slow, but it picks up in the second half. 

Please read through the trigger warnings before starting if you’re at all concerned, though, because there are some really heavy topics involving DV and death.

Even without the underlying murder mystery surrounding things, this book was engaging and really lovely. In fact, Aggie being the murderer might have been the one storyline that I wasn’t the biggest fan of, and didn’t feel 100% earned to me. This is probably the reason it’s not a full 5 star. 

I love how much time is spent in nature, with the wolves, and talking about conservation. The piece about starting small in your own backyard was just so sweet. 

I normally hate timeline switching, but it was so fluid and easy in this book that it didn’t feel off at all. Very natural progression.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Violence, Rape, Death, Domestic abuse, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Alcohol, and Sexual content

Minor: Death of parent, Suicide, Abortion, and Child abuse

meritm's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad 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

2.75

i hate people that drink when they're pregnant, but don't want an abortion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Animal death

Moderate: Rape, Violence, Mental illness, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Torture, Stalking, and Pregnancy

jextown's review against another edition

3.0

Conflicted. I really liked the writing of this book, the way the story was told and unfolded. I liked that there were interesting and kind of dreamlike sequences, but I also struggled with the trauma, the brutality of that flashback with her sister was too much, I really had to steady myself, disconnect my emotions best I could. I really enjoyed the twins’ father and mother, just thought they were unique characters. It was a little messy all around but I enjoyed that part too. I found everything with the wolves interesting and as controversial as it may be I did like the conclusion to the murder mystery. I didn’t much care for the romantic relationship in the book at all, thought that dude kinda sucked tbh. But I can also appreciate that he was a flawed person, not all bad definitely not all good. I appreciated the bond of sisters but upon reflection I don’t really like the way Aggie was handled, even if I did enjoy the intrigue of wondering what was going on with her throughout the book. Like I said, conflicted. I liked it and didn’t and would be careful of who I recommend this to. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Misogyny, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Dementia, Ableism, Alcoholism, and Suicide

This book includes an intense flashback to a horrific and brutal sexual assault which results in one of the primary characters being a mute, shell of a person unable to care for herself for much of this book.

mellowreading's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, Murder, Mental illness, Grief, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Animal death, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Suicide and Death of parent

steph_s's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Animal death, Domestic abuse, and Death

Moderate: Gore, Pregnancy, Rape, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Murder

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

Graphic: Death, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Blood, Body horror, Dementia, Drug abuse, Grief, Toxic relationship, Violence, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Suicide, Torture, Vomit, Alcohol, Animal death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse