Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

224 reviews

jekisah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Murder, and Blood

Moderate: Rape

maggies's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-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

4.0

This wasn't going to be a 4 star read until the end. It's a slow, tough start—trying to figure out the rules of the game, what's happening to the narrator and everyone around them. I can't say I ever fully understood, but by the last quarter, I was hooked. This is probably a story that would be easier to follow as a movie or tv show, since it was pretty difficult to visualize all the different characters and their connections to each other. Also, it's interesting that a major theme was redemption because I did not find any characters particularly redeemable. It took me a long time to warm up to the narrator, so fair warning, these people aren't likable! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicide, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

artstitute's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This book was full of twists and turns, some of which I found more compelling than others.

The big twist that the whole plot was some cooked-up punishment a la Black Mirror kind of felt unnecessary to me. It didn't ruin the rest of the book, but it introduced a lot of moral quandaries that I don't think added much. OTOH, the Evelyn twist? IMMACULATE.

All in all, though, I definitely couldn't put it down and I would recommend it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Alcoholism, Blood, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Grief, Murder, and Suicide

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Animal death, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Torture

tdylan's review

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

I really liked this at the start. The fatphobia about 20% of the way through soured me and felt like bad writing. It never got me fully on board again after that. I found that the reveals in the ending weren’t seeded very well throughout the story, and, so, fell pretty flat

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Fatphobia, and Violence

Moderate: Classism, Child death, Rape, and Suicide

heoleen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense slow-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

3.25

The story itself is very unique. However, I was confused throughout most of it, which is why I gave it a lower rating. It was difficult keeping track of the different characters and their personalities. The concept was good though.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Fatphobia, Grief, Suicide, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Death

mr_munch's review

• 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia and Death

Moderate: Gun violence, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

Minor: Sexual content

pravi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

loved it, the characters and the plot were intriguing, and i loved the different perspectives of the characters and the groundhog day style setting. but i felt like there was too much going on and i couldnt really keep track of any of the characters except anna and evelyn. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Animal death

shaylashaylala's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Rape, Blood, Gaslighting, Murder, Self harm, Sexual assault, Torture, Child death, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

beckyg1016's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense

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

4.25

Every puzzle piece draws you closer to the answer, but not in the way you think.
My advice: Don't try too hard to solve it, play along with the main character as the story unfolds - the ending is worth it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Blood, Murder, and Suicide

Moderate: Drug use, Alcohol, and Classism

bill_nai_bxtch's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Murder, Suicide, Addiction, Alcohol, Confinement, Death of parent, Child death, Toxic friendship, Rape, Blood, Drug abuse, Drug use, Classism, Death, Grief, and Sexual assault