Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

Kosiarze by Neal Shusterman

99 reviews

leahfaith_'s review against another edition

adventurous funny reflective slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide and Kidnapping

Minor: Self harm

ecainsford's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, and Murder

Moderate: Child death and Self harm

galacticpal's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Murder

bluecurlyflowerpants's review against another edition

adventurous reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Self harm, and Murder

Minor: Child death, Physical abuse, Suicide, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

maiabradley's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Suicide and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Self harm

sierrabowers's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

sofieinthestacks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective sad tense fast-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

4.5

"All such conflict is a thing of the past. There is peace on Earth, good will toward app humankind. Except..."

I did not expect to love this book as much as I did. Once I started reading, it sucked me in and captivated my essence in all the best ways possible. I loved Citra and her determination; I hated Goddard and his corruption, and I eagerly read through all the twists the story took.
Scythe is an intriguing book on the corruption of humanity, semi-frequently contrasting the human-run scythedom to the Thunderhead-run civilian society. There were so many moments that just left me starting at a wall, processing the emotionally wrenching scenes. But even with the darkness throughout the story, there were still moments I couldn't help but laugh. It was a nice reprieve from the heaviness of most of the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Mass/school shootings, and Murder

Moderate: Self harm and Suicide

thatwhitedye's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.75

Probably one of my favorite reads of 2024. The characters, world and prose are so so well done. Can’t wait to read the next one!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Mass/school shootings, and Murder

ravenvynz05's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

I read this for my book club and oh.... my... god at the half way point our weekly meeting reached 2+ hours the 3rd meeting had to have a cap on it 🙃. It delves into topics I haven't thought about except in my deepest moments of intrusive thoughts. Honestly it was a horrifyingly good book and despite being able to be YA I dont reccomend younger teens to be reading this especially if they have stuff going on. There were plenty of funny and interesting and even some loving moment but just my brain cant get over all the questions a lot of the journal entries brought up. Something I will say is that it was extremely good, extremely well written and it might even have a presence on you even after you're done with it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Self harm, Suicide, and Violence

purstiltski's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Torture