Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin

588 reviews

ella_the_hairs's review

emotional sad 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual content, and Grief

Minor: Miscarriage, Vomit, and Pregnancy

lanalewis0's review against another edition

emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

i thought it was a 4 but i cannot stop thinking about autumn and finny, so i changed it to a 5.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

fkshg8465's review against another edition

emotional 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? Yes

3.75

After reading this one, I really wish I’d read it before If Only He had Told Me. As far as young adult novels go, I think they’d really connect to this material. I can see a lot of young people feeling some modicum of relief that they aren’t the only ones to (fill in the blank).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Infidelity, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

erin_1406's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

lindsaymc74's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Pregnancy

I had seen many tik toks about this book so I had high expectations. I kinda already had an idea of how it ended going into it. However I felt the last 50 ish pages of the book felt extremely rushed, whereas the rest of the book dragged on. It took me soooooo long to get through the first half of the book because of how slow it was. If the book’s pace was a lot faster, I probably would’ve given it 5 stars. Overall worth the read tho.

hgonzalez113's review

dark emotional sad 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Minor: Sexual assault

tialyr's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

Well, I hope you read the reviews because I did not and although the book wasn’t a sad book, the ending was incredibly heart wrenching. It was a slow and steady coming-of-age story from Autumn’s perspective, throughout high school watching her childhood best friend from afar, and living their separate lives. It really was a story of them finding their ways back to each other and how that culminated into a very sweet bit before the end.
I will say, Laura is an excellent writer and when I saw she had published a book from Finn’s perspective, I vowed not to read it because I cannot put myself through the heartbreak again!
I hope if you read this, you feel the nostalgia and wistfulness, and feel the ache of young love and heartbreak again for the sake of realizing the tenderness that also comes along with being a teenager.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

brtvajes1's review against another edition

3.0

I liked this better at the beginning than at the end. Everything just wrapped up all too quickly in the last couple of chapters, with still some questions left unanswered. Felt like a slow start then a sprint at the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

luxl3ms's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident

Moderate: Mental illness and Suicide attempt

fcgriffin's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy