Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell

22 reviews

mondovertigo's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Blood, Miscarriage, Animal death, Ableism, Stalking, Gaslighting, and Death

Moderate: Suicide and Child abuse

bookedbymadeline's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

The book could be slow in the beginning and difficult to get through at times. Especially since the chapters were fairly long at the start (I personally prefer short chapters to read between errands). Luckily they did get shorter once the background story was more established.

I really liked the switching timelines and POVs! The novel is atmospheric with a creepy, tense mystery. I couldn’t put it down by the second half and enjoyed the unpredictable plot twists!

I think the eerie ending was well done, even with leaving it kind of open. I was left with some unanswered questions but I didn’t mind that like I normally  would! It added to the mystery and unsettling nature of the story, which worked perfectly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Grief, Gore, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Ableism, Miscarriage, Xenophobia, Child death, Child abuse, Animal death, Racial slurs, Death of parent, and Murder

aylabookworm's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Racial slurs, Gore, Suicide, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Child death, and Blood

voilajean's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Violence, Gaslighting, and Grief

crowlivia's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Ableism, Forced institutionalization, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: Incest

casualpaper's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Death, Suicide, Medical trauma, Animal death, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

bedtimesandbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

0.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child death, Child abuse, Violence, Suicide, Stalking, Sexism, Racism, Racial slurs, Pregnancy, Murder, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Death, Blood, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

antoniarachael28's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Pregnancy, Suicide, Violence, and Vomit

happyladyjadereads's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• 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

4.75

Very spooky and tense, this book is beautifully done and really is a very unsettling but satisfying read! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicide, Child death, Stalking, Murder, Death, Animal death, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Grief

j_squaredd's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Violence

Minor: Child abuse and Sexual violence