Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

119 reviews

augdafrog'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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Suicide attempt

lgalgano32's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Murder

nellkristen's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Suicide, Violence, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Alcohol

prettycloud's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

A whirlwind mystery, continually bamboozling and delightful, excellently paced. New clues only lead to new questions, and though the ending is a series of twists, they make sense and satisfy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fatphobia, Infidelity, and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction, Confinement, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Alcohol, and Classism

No in-text rape but a perspective character has raped women in the past. No in-text drug abuse but a perspective character is still high from previous drug use and there is alcohol use and abuse.

No in-text suicide but a perspective character sees what they think is

suicide. Several murders happen in a thriller/murder mystery context, so there's grief and trauma but the vibe is more action-y and solution-oriented. If you have trauma around the "justice" system, be warned that the main characters

are on trial/imprisoned in a fantasy/metaphysical way, so there's no literal lawyer/judge/prison content, but their freedom will be decided based on a judgment of their actions.

abbymiller616's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.25

This book was a trip from start to finish. I won’t lie: it was pretty slow-moving until about 60%. I absolutely LOVED the concept of the novel and was very excited to begin the book, but the entire first part of the book had me so confused that it was like trying to put together a puzzle that doesn’t have edge pieces to frame the rest of the puzzle with to start. Even with the book synopsis, I felt utterly lost, which was most likely Turton’s intention, but it was a bit discouraging. For the rest of the book, there were frustrating valleys like this that would motivate me to put the book down and return to a reality that I understood, however, as I’ve said, at around 60/70%, the pace began to pick up as pieces of the puzzle started to fall into place. I’m not sure if I really did appreciate who the true murderer was in the end… I felt disappointed since there were hardly any clues left for the reader to pick up on that would lead to the true conclusion earlier on. (I love to have theories earlier on so that I can prove them right!) Overall, I think I learned to appreciate Turton’s writing style and layout of this twisted mystery… I can’t imagine all of the brainstorming and rearranging it took to put the vision onto paper, so I applaud him for that. I’ve had this novel on my “want to read” shelf for 4 years, so I think all of that anticipation led to unreasonable expectations for which I have only myself to blame. In the end, I would recommend this book to anyone who loves a good multi-faceted, open-ended mystery where there’s not really just one right answer. Just as the characters get tangled in the mirage, so will you, reader.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Rape, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction

geekberry's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Alcohol

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

blueberryelf's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense fast-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: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

helenferg's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious 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: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

dascha's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Fatphobia, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Infertility, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Rape, Torture, and Blood

starsbyname's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Physical abuse, Suicide, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, and Gore