Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body by Megan Milks

5 reviews

rororow's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad 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

5.0

Not for everyone, I know, but I felt like this book was my teenage experience. Amazingly written and unravels in the most insane way at the end.
It wasn’t mentioned, but to me, Margaret is absolutely coded autistic and it made my relationship to her teenage hood so much stronger.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Toxic friendship, and Body shaming

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Body horror

mccall17's review

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

Sent me into an absolute spiral of reflecting on my own adolescence and "girlhood" and the deep pains of adolescence for those who don't fit perfectly into it. Couldn't ever predict where it was going next and each new section felt exciting, terrifying, and impossible to tear away from, like a trance. Had to force myself to not read it in one sitting!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Sexism, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, and Vomit

_autumn_'s review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Car accident, Excrement, Transphobia, Confinement, Homophobia, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Dysphoria, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Alcohol, Sexual assault, and Rape

demo's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective 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

 This book is like if Chuck Palahniuk's Damned and Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit had a trans baby. Palpable resonances with many different texts, some which Milks lists as direct influences in the back matter (e.g. Goosebumps books, Nancy Drew, Matilda, the documentary Thin, Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted, and Judith Butler's work), and others unmentioned (like Ghost World and Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak).

"If adolescence is a passageway, a twilight zone or liminal space, it's also the time when, like thick blobs of gummy dough, we get poured into shape and rise. It's a plastic time, a time of self-discovery and growth, and in some cases tremendous creativity. Teenagehood is that stage when you get to become who you are, or who you can be. Ah, there's the rub: How can you be who you are when—Margaret doesn't know how to finish this question." (p. 99)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, and Mental illness

Moderate: Body horror, Car accident, Death, Dysphoria, Excrement, Homophobia, Self harm, Sexual assault, Vomit, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Bullying, Confinement, Grief, Medical content, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

suzyreadsbooks's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

5.0

Wowowowowowow I’ve never sobbed like that while finishing a book. More thoughts to come but uhhhh this is absolutely a new favorite. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Fatphobia

Moderate: Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Body shaming