Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E. Harrow

16 reviews

f18's review

dark slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Violence

Moderate: Suicide, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Blood and Child death

bexbringsbooks's review

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

There are no saints. And love is a tragedy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Colonisation, Death, Gore, Grief, Murder, Suicide, War, Xenophobia, Blood, Body horror, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Classism, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, and Violence

bladelikesbooks's review

adventurous dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

5.0

‘The Six Deaths of the Saint’ is a fantasy short story about an orphan and how far she’ll go to be beloved. 

This was really fun. I loved the plot and the characters. Most of the time with short stories that I enjoy, I end it wanting more and a fully fleshed out version but I was perfectly satisfied with this. I also really loved the narration! It was proper voice acting rather than just reading the text and it was fantastically done. 

“unloved and unknown except by one another.”

TWs/CWs - Abuse; Amputation; Blood; Death; Drowning; Grief; Illness; Loneliness; Manipulation; Murder; Suicide; Violence; War

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Blood, War, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Physical abuse, Child abuse, and Violence

kassidyreads's review

dark sad fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicide, Death, War, and Child death

readingwithkaitlyn's review

dark mysterious fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, War, Suicide, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism and Child death

Minor: Sexual content

Drowning

chloeuvres's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I have high expectations for Alix E. Harrow's work that should be pretty impossible to exceed, but here we are, wailing after reading this three times in 24 hours 😢

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, War, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Ableism