Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

51 reviews

litliz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Hate crime, Toxic relationship, Confinement, Kidnapping, Medical content, Self harm, Stalking, Suicide, Body horror, Colonisation, Death of parent, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Gore, Bullying, Chronic illness, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Racism, Transphobia, Violence, and Vomit

ppppaula's review against another edition

I really tried with this one but now I know why it’s stayed in my TBR pile for 2 years. I was excited to read a young NZ author, writing a dark tale based on Romeo and Juliet. Unlikeable characters - Juliette is just a horrible person, seemingly without a single redeeming feature. I found the writing style overdone too - every little thing was described in so much unnecessary detail - too many mouths and eyebrows ‘quirking’ in every scene, along with nostrils flaring and ice running through veins. Just not for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence and Murder

ohgull's review against another edition

Umm, yeah…

Very edgy and Mary Sue in a cringey way. For a Romeo and Juliet re-telling, you really only get Juliet in this novel. Roma had no personality whatsoever. I swear that the side characters got more screen time than he did.

Wasn’t worth powering through for me, just not compelling enough.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicide, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Body horror and Blood

reachingforstardust's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Self harm, and Body horror

Moderate: Violence and Transphobia

ell_n's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Suicide, Murder, and Gun violence

Moderate: Medical content and Death of parent

f4ye's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-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

4.25

THE SECONDARY LOVE STORY WAS BETTER THAN THE MAIN ONE I SAID IT. the book was so good i annotated it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicide, Murder, and Self harm

Moderate: Gore and Gun violence

Minor: Racism

chronicacademia's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, Suicide, Death, Child death, and Self harm

Moderate: Body horror, Animal death, Classism, Blood, Genocide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Toxic relationship, Colonisation, Drug use, and Violence

amelias_library_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.5

the beginning was slow but it got better towards the middle.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Suicide, Gun violence, Death, Gore, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, War, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Classism, and Death of parent

Minor: Transphobia and Homophobia

latashman's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gun violence, and Suicide

vagorsol's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Suicide, Gun violence, Self harm, and Violence

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Transphobia