Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

4 reviews

bayliekusch's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Eating disorder, and Death

Moderate: Pregnancy and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, and Animal death

potsnpots's review

adventurous challenging emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, Grief, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, and Death

christinastuart26's review

dark medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Toxic friendship, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Animal death and Gun violence

pear's review

dark emotional reflective 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? No

4.5

Loved the development of the main character, Miranda. She really grew up a lot during that year. 
The science wasn't very on point but that wasn't the reason I was reading the book so I don't mind. What really mattered was how the characters faced the increasing difficulties in their ways - and that was done superbly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Eating disorder

Moderate: Death and Pregnancy

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Adult/minor relationship, and Suicidal thoughts

The characters have too little food to support a healthy diet: they starve themselves as a result. A background character starves herself because a priest orders her to, dies as a result. Religion is shown in a very negative light. The priest is a jerk that tells others to starve themselves, eats his fill himself. Religion seems more of a cult than anything else.