Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

12 reviews

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Ableism, Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Misogyny, Body shaming, and Cancer

Minor: Bullying, Child death, Colonisation, Addiction, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Drug use, Murder, Suicide, Alcohol, Classism, Confinement, Drug abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Homophobia

Colorism, missing person, r slur.

asainspace's review

emotional funny mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

Clever, beautiful, interesting short stories/character sketches. I was really invested in every character even though the stories were short. A quick read. Will definitely be reading more by this author!  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Terminal illness, Cancer, and Racism

Moderate: Sexual violence, Addiction, Suicide, and Alcoholism

Minor: Abortion

illy95's review

emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Sad overall. It’s the struggles, if a day, of a life. But rather poignant inside look at each snipped of life in each short story. There’s not much resolution of any of the stories, but I enjoyed the snippets. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide, Domestic abuse, and Sexual content

mengzhenreads's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

My favorite stories from this collection were Sugar Babies, Julian Plaza, Sabrina & Corina, and Tomi. 

Overall, a good collection of stories that were generally thought-provoking and interesting. I didn't enjoy all the stories equally but it was still a good read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Physical abuse

Minor: Suicide and Drug abuse

mold_munchr's review

reflective fast-paced

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

3.0

Alright but there wasn't anything...groundbreaking? If you've read indigenous and feminist literature before this isn't anything really new. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Sexual violence and Suicide

gabbygarcia's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.5

I want Ghost Sickness to be an entire novel 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Cancer, and Death of parent

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Sexual content, Addiction, Genocide, Medical content, Sexual harassment, Terminal illness, Violence, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Murder, and Racism

Minor: Abortion, Fatphobia, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Car accident, Sexual assault, and Suicide

generational trauma, gentrification

spinesinaline's review

challenging reflective 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? Yes

4.0

Took a while for me to get into this one but the stories only got better and the last (Ghost Sickness) was definitely my favourite.

A lot of the stories were about abuses against women, from extreme physical abuse to systemic discrimination. As I’ve talked about before, this is one of my least favourite topics in books so it turned me off at first, especially as I hadn’t heard this about the stories from all the hype I’d seen for this collection. Still, the author’s strength in writing shines through so they were still enjoyable to read.

One point to mention, there were several uncomfortable uses of outdated terminology relating to Indigenous peoples. I assume part of this is due to the time period the author has set these stories in but I don’t think it was necessary. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Physical abuse, Racism, Terminal illness, Domestic abuse, Death, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Misogyny

Moderate: Addiction, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Suicide, Medical content, and Pedophilia

internationalreads's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Violence, Xenophobia, Car accident, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Abortion, Alcohol, Drug use, Grief, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Suicide

clrieant's review

challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Well-written, and so honest. A hard but necessary read. I strongly recommend it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexism and Racism

Minor: Car accident

caseythereader's review

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Cancer, Car accident, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Fatphobia

Minor: Ableism