Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

25 reviews

pchamblee's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

This is the first audiobook I’ve tried and made it all the way through, so I have to give major credit to Candace Thaxton and the rest of the narration team for pulling it off so well. Considering the psychological suspense factor, I’ll forever be curious what it would have been like to experience it the first time in print (possibly would have been even more mind-boggling)—but, I thoroughly enjoyed the delivery of the narration.

This is a very eerie and disturbing story. It’s obvious early on that there’s mystery involved and there will be a twist at the end, but I don’t think any reader can be fully prepared for what comes (despite all the hints woven in). Even though I typically go for comfort fiction with happily ever afters, I love a good psychological thriller story and this book does it really well. It’s unique in the way it balances a meandering intellectual commentary with a thoroughly terrifying cautionary tale.

I’ve heard the Netflix film adaptation isn’t 100% true to the book and many fans say it doesn’t do it justice, but once I get a chance I’m gonna watch it out of curiously and just because I liked this story so much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Death, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Blood, Death, Mental illness, and Self harm

Minor: Alcohol, Medical content, Violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent

drpeeper's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Blood, Suicide, and Mental illness

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Grief

garfield_eats's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Blood, Stalking, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

hauntedantiqueshop's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

1.0

I’m actually not sure we all read the same book. Y’all liked that lame ass ending? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, and Mental illness

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Medical content

Minor: Animal death and Death of parent

kaleegannon's review against another edition

3.5

genuinely frightening!! very atmospheric, unsettling. enjoyed the dialogue in the first half a lot, too. minus points for the ending but really enjoyed the ride up until then.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Mental illness, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide

Moderate: Stalking and Gaslighting

Minor: Blood and Ableism

suicide:

character dies by suicide in last couple pages. act described in detail. suicidal thoughts leading up to act also described in detail.

animal death:

character sees multiple dead animals on a farm. another character describes in detail euthanizing sick farm animals.

britainmic's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

It had a bit of a slow start to me -which made me think I’d dislike this book-, but once it actually started to get a little creepy my interest piqued greatly and I wanted to read the book all the way through. The book greatly unnerved me and gave me that underlying sense of anxiety, which I guess is a good thing to do if you’re a horror book. It actually made me kind of scared at certain points, which -for me- is uncommon in horror books, even if I think they’re really good. It was the kind of feeling where I planned to watch something funny after I finished the book before I went to bed. I never knew where the book was headed. It was kind of confusing, but not in the sense of. I didn’t understand what was going on. I just had no idea where it would lead.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Death of parent, Blood, Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail

missgrangerr's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0

I cannot stop thinking about this book. I read it two weeks ago and I cannot shake this book, in the best way. 

Disclaimer: this book is not going to be for everyone. However those is is for will be consumed with this story. This is about all I can say without ruining the book. It really is a fantastic book that will stay with you for a while after reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Bullying, Animal cruelty, and Death

aformeracceleratedreader's review against another edition

medium-paced

3.0

Not entirely sure how to feel. I enjoyed aspects of it but feel I might be too dumb to fully understand everything. Like I think I get it but I don't think I do at the same time. 
Check trigger/content warnings

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

sargasso_c's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

This is the only novel ever that I have finished, and then reread from page one. Definitely worth the read and I look forward to reading more works by this author. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Death, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Grief, Blood, Death of parent, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

angrynerd's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

1.0

Labeled as a novel, I would put this work more in the ‘novella’ category. The plot compels readers to tackle it quickly and an avid reader with a stretch of time on their hands could finish this in a sitting or two. However, if it weren’t for it’s shorter length I may have abandoned it before the end. The writing style is very staccato and  at the start I was unsure if I was being led by an unreliable narrator or if the author didn’t properly narrate from woman's perspective. The answer was yes to both and in the end it actually worked, but I wasn’t left with the feeling it was done purposefully. Women are not a monolith, but it never felt natural. The author does well constantly supplying a feeling of unease. The second to last chapter contains four pages of a single question asked over and over. However, there are several plot devices, at least one of which I considered important, that are just never explained. I thought reaching the end would give me the ‘Aha!’ that explained the things I was annoyed about or at the very least make them less annoying, but in the end it just wasn’t what the reviews promised. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts