Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro

57 reviews

nineinchnails's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

the end threw me for a loop but i still really enjoyed this! there was a lot of loose ends (and ambiguity) which had this feeling a little anticlimactic but i’m sure i’ll get much more out of this novel on a reread. it does feel a little underdeveloped but it was still really engaging.

this was pretty eerie and atmospheric at parts - it almost felt like a horror, which does explain feeling slightly cheated by the ending. despite how short this was (183 pages) it felt much longer somehow; even the side characters felt relatively complex and well developed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Suicide, and Misogyny

Moderate: Murder, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Child death, Animal death, and Grief

Minor: War

Child neglect

baruss666's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: War

gs_books's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

Minor: Suicide and Child death

bhargavi_lawbookskettlebells's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Animal death, and Murder

senko's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Animal cruelty, and Suicide

softbooknerd's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Animal death, Suicide, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Abandonment, Child abuse, and Death

Minor: Death of parent

deryakevs's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

I only got what game Ishiguro did literally at the last few pages of the book. Also a few scenes had me in shock (in a horrifying way).

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Suicide, and Mental illness

risemini's review against another edition

emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Grief, Misogyny, Suicide, War, Child death, Death, and Death of parent

daniaustria's review against another edition

mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide

mikkiokko's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

This book has me in quite a kerfuffle. I like this book, but I feel like I still have so much left to dissect and think about. I think this is a book that would greatly benefit from a reread. It was much more macabre than I expected, but when it leaned into that it worked very well. Overall, it was good and I'd like to reread it in the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide