Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic

77 reviews

megjames321's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful tense medium-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

4.5

Re-read for the 4/5th time on holiday bcos it's just so gooD 😂 ridiculous himbo narrator vibes is cute and the whole range of psycho characters is sO interesting, v unpredictable and actually a really fun read 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide

beckx's review against another edition

dark lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide, Alcohol, Addiction, Child abuse, Death of parent, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Homophobia and Vomit

li_reading's review against another edition

0.25

To everyone who told me I needed to finish a series before calling it problematic. I finished it. It got worse. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Death of parent, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Alcohol, Ableism, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Suicide, Drug use, Grief, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Rape and Self harm

l_zerda_17's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Suicide

miavlb's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I went into this book knowing nothing, which was probably not the best idea lol. This is my first sports book and I honestly don’t really know how to feel about it. I think the fictional sport, Exy, is very interesting and I wish I had a better understanding of how Exy worked, but that might just be because I don’t understand most sports. The plot revolving around the sport did keep me interested since there was a lot at stake. However, the first half of the book did start out slow. It got more exciting once we got to the first game of the season.
Now the characters…I have very mixed feelings about them. I do feel bad for the main character Neil for going through so much abuse and other traumatic things throughout his life, but he does give me edge lord vibes. The other characters, such as Kevin and Andrew, have also experienced traumatic things in their lives and also give me edgey vibes. I know if I read this as a teenager, during the peak of the tumblr era, I would have ate this up. I know this series is a trilogy, so I believe more character development will happen in the later books if I decide to read them. I do have a slight problem with Nicky’s character. So far he’s the only confirmed gay character, he’s written as sort of predatory toward any good looking man, especially Neil. He even forces Neil to kiss him while Neil is drugged up, which rubbed me the wrong way. I understand the not every character has to be morally good, but having the only confirmed gay character act like that was very concerning. There was also other things that could be very triggering to readers, such as the use of slurs and mentions of suicide, so I advise people to look up trigger warnings before reading this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Cursing, Homophobia, Ableism, and Bullying

Minor: Vomit and Suicide

reygov's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Suicide, Alcohol, Cursing, Drug abuse, Sexual violence, Blood, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Self harm, Torture, Toxic friendship, Grief, Gun violence, Homophobia, Kidnapping, and Panic attacks/disorders

evicteline's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Suicide, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Car accident, Cursing, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, and Self harm

Minor: Vomit

jenny_librarian's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I didn’t know what to expect out of this book, but I definitely didn’t think I’d be as obsessed with it as I was. It’s one of those books I just *had* to keep reading.

It’s much darker than I anticipated. Not gruesome, just dark. There’s a lot of abuse – on and off page – but it didn’t feel as bad as other, less dark books I tried to read.

I don’t think I’d like to see Exy as a sport (I hate the NHL because I find it too violent), but on the context of the book it’s quite interesting.

I’m looking forward to book 2, and trying to figure out how that ship everyone talks about will get to happen (if it’s even canon, cause right now it makes no sense to me that those two could have a romantic relationship).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Bullying, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Mental illness, Addiction, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Suicide, and Torture

Minor: Toxic relationship, Homophobia, and Vomit

adelinereads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad fast-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? Yes

3.0

Neil has been running from his past as long as he can remember and is now all alone. Then he get this chance to move to a school to play his dream sport Exy. But this team is not a regular team, it’s for people who needs a second chance, third chance in life to turn things around. 

However, one person in this team has a past with Neil, but he doesn’t seem to remember him and it’s vital that he doesn’t, because then Neil has to leave, he can’t be found (this part gave me some captive prince vibes hahah) 

I enjoyed the book and actually couldn’t put it down. I read it in one day. But was it good?? I’m not sure, it was okay haha. 

• I actually liked the sports parts a lot!! I don’t like sports irl but it was so fun reading about the practices and games, how the characters developed and struggled. 
• the otp for this book feels so wrong to me. I actually thought that the pairing was with another guy haha. I’ve seen fan art but didn’t remember the names, so I knew that the first book probably would build up this romance - and I guessed the wrong guy while reading?? I just can’t see Neil with his otp. 
• I just can’t see this group of people as real friends?? Neil met this other group of people later on in the book and THAT feels right to me. The dynamics between the “first friend group” was kinda odd but interesting. 
• there is some old slurs and jokes that are NOT okay in this book. And I feel that the story doesn’t try to tell us or learn something from it, it just accepts for example rape jokes as a normal joke? When it could’ve been a teachable moment that tells the readers that ‘no this is wrong’. 
• There is this person who has some diagnosis or illness, i don’t know what because the author never specifically tells us. But he takes medicine - and sometimes he stops taking them, and the author and other characters call him “sober”? That is kinda weird? I don’t know if we will have more information about this in the other books, but yeah, what do they mean with sober from his medicine? Not taking your medicine seems really dangerous and to give the narrative that he’s “sober” and better of without them seems weird?? Haha maybe I didn’t understand this part of the book at all. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, and Suicide

Minor: Death of parent, Homophobia, Rape, and Ableism

thewildmageslibrary's review against another edition

dark tense

4.0

I don't know why, but I liked this. XD This team is so dysfunctional and omg they do horrifying things, but I still want the best for them? Someone explain this to me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Addiction

Moderate: Death of parent, Physical abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Ableism, Alcohol, Violence, and Drug abuse

Minor: Murder, Homophobia, Sexual assault, and Suicide