Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill

8 reviews

ashbea's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Addiction, Sexual content, Drug use, Miscarriage, Suicide, Pregnancy, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Grief, Gun violence, Abandonment, and Rape

Minor: Animal death

codexqueen's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Pedophilia, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Death, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Grief, Suicide, Pregnancy, Cursing, and Murder

passionateforthings's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual content, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Drug use, Gun violence, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Suicide

calicat42's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This is the one book I would read for the first time over and over again. Tragically beautiful. A commentary on love, humanity, relationships, and trying to find our way in the world. It shatters your heart beautifully.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide, Drug abuse, Violence, Sexual violence, Infidelity, and Emotional abuse

lectricefeministe's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Classism, Drug use, Miscarriage, Murder, Trafficking, Suicide, Stalking, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Sexual content, Infidelity, Rape, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, and Pedophilia

charlotteadshead's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

This book was not at all what I was expecting. Having seen it compared to The Night Circus (one of my favourite books) I had high expectations which were unfortunately not met. I could see only the barest of reflections of Celia and Marco in Rose and Pierrot but that was where the similarities ended. I did find this book utterly absorbing and when I sat down to read it I flew through it however the big issue for me here was the pacing of the story. Had the entire book been written in the same vein as the final 150 pages then this book could have been utterly fantastic however it took far too long to get to this point. Our two main characters were apart for too large a percentage of the story for me to become totally invested in their love story and while I appreciate that this part of the story provided important background for later events, I feel that this could have been done in a more concise manner. I was drawn into this book by the promise of a dazzling circus show and unfortunately this was glossed over far too quickly as the majority of the plot was squeezed into the final 150 pages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual content

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Miscarriage, and Suicide

mbrianne's review against another edition

challenging reflective fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Suicide

nads's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Grief, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Suicide