Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Välimatkoja by Nina LaCour

85 reviews

michaelanormand's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, Blood, Mental illness, Alcohol, and Death

Moderate: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

littlebluebirdie's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful 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

4.25

A book i first read as a lonely teen. A book i reread now, years later, shortly before graduating highschools. It was the perfect time, for the second time. It broke my heart and stitched it back together. As a young queer teen, in love with their best friend, not having learned how to grief and wishing nothing more than to vanish, it hit me. And it showed me a future. As someone with photos and postcards to put on my pinwall, that future feels more tangible than ever. 
This book had a lasting impact on me, and it will forever mean something. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Cancer

hazelisreading's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Death of parent, Cancer, Alcohol, Suicide, and Gaslighting

dopestitches's review against another edition

reflective sad

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide and Grief

epeolatrist'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicide and Mental illness

theabee'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

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Suicide

historyoftape's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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

3.75

Reading this was like wiping down a fogged-up window, more and more darkness and chaos being revealed outside, making the light and warmth of the inside all the more noticable.

The more I learned about her grandfather the less I liked him, the more I learned about her the more I just wanted her to be able to heal.

And that is what I really liked here- is being able to grow with the MC, and feel with her not just for her. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Grief

Moderate: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Suicide, and Terminal illness

ouroboros_00's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Heartbreaking and beautifully written. Manages to capture and distill the feelings of  different types of grief and loss with incredible economy. Grief of losing people to death, to growing up, to secrets. Grief of losing yourself as you change. Despite writing a very specific story, LaCour's evocative language managed to dust off and rip open the boxes storing my own grief and loneliness. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Mental illness, and Suicide

clementine9'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

It's the sort of book that holds your heart in its hands and tells you it's okay to be sad, or lonely, or heartbroken, and that there is healing in friendship and love and found family.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide, Alcohol, and Mental illness

garfield_eats's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent and Suicide

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders