Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

I fell in love with hope by Lancali

66 reviews

reiley_61's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Terminal illness

bogentusiast's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Rape and War

shalisa's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

1.75

Trigger warning for everything under the sun: self harm, eating disorders, illness, death of a parent, suicide, sexual assault, child abuse, rape, homophobia, medical trauma, domestic abuse, cancer, etc  

I could’ve loved this but somebody lied to me. 

Firstly, and if I read this wrong then my mistake but creating fictitious symptoms from very REAL diseases and illnesses is not okay. I’m talking about what I read in the foreword and how things went in the book. I can’t imagine why you wouldn’t just come up with your own illness at that point? It’s safer and less problematic. However, that’s beyond me.

I couldn’t keep the characters straight until the middle of the book. I finally learned their names and how they identified with their illness at the 50% mark. That’s not good but im not saying that’s the author’s fault. 

There’s a quote in here, something like “Her injuries aren’t from her disease. They’re all her own” referring to Hikari who self-harms and is suicidal. I think this is a wildly dangerous statement to make. The assumption that just because she does something to her body means that it is done by her and only her meaning she has all the control. What about the illnesses that accompany it? This was wholly irresponsible writing/storytelling. If I read that wrong then my bad, I have a tendency with this book to mistake something for something else because of the purple prose but damn if I’m right then damn somebody better tell me something. 

Neo’s eating disorder is revealed to have been “faked” but all I’m saying is at some point when does it stop being “fake” and become something that is serious and requires actual medical attention. He was in the hospital, on tubes and whatnot, what he was not doing was faking an illness. I don’t care how beautiful the sentiment sounds in a book that romanticizes these illnesses/diseases. 

 

I can’t deny there were some things beautiful here. There were some beautiful moments and quotes littered through purple prose. I can appreciate that but I also know that that’s not enough. I can’t with good faith give this more than 1 stars because there’s so much dangerous content here. I can’t in good faith be okay with what was said when it came to mental illness and not because I’m a therapist but because as a human being who care and love people with mental disorders…I know that they do not do these things to themselves. I’d never imagine a thing. I hope the next reader knows that. I hope y’all know. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Death of parent

aviery's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful sad 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: Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Eating disorder, Homophobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, and Sexual assault

bafrin's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

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

3.0

Felt like reading a journal, It is so realistically and beautifully written.

Some of my fav lines:

"I think the worst feeling in the world is telling someone you are in pain,and hearing them say there is no wound"

"Depression, it steals moments that should be yours."

"He looked into Coeur rather than at him"

"I'm just not real in the way you need me to be."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

jrkive's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Rape, Self harm, and Grief

Minor: Death of parent

erica_reads_things's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

Lancali is going to go so far with her writing, I can tell. This was a beautifully done story. Though the writing style is not what I typically gravitate to, I can appreciate the beautiful, poetic themes and how well it works with the story she is telling. Her final note really hit me, and I'm grateful that I got to read something so close and personal to someone. It's an honor to be let into someone's life and emotions in that way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Car accident, and Pregnancy

x_kim_x's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Self harm

Moderate: Bullying, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Minor: Rape, Vomit, and Death of parent

jor_dy's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.25

i really Did Not like the writing style however i SOBBED at the end so (award for most devastating book i’ve ever read goes to)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Homophobia

Minor: Child death, Vomit, and Death of parent

definitely look up trigger warnings beforehand !! ik there’s a brief list in the very very beginning of the book, and i’m sure there’s lists online too. i tried to put as many as i could remember, but my ranking of severity (especially for the moderate and minor tws may be off)

cianarae's review against another edition

hopeful sad slow-paced

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

3.0

This was a little too slow, wordy, and dramatic for me. Especially the dialogue. The big reveal at the end was not quite a big enough payoff for how much they hinted at it throughout the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Cancer, Confinement, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Rape