Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Interview with the vampire by Anne Rice

82 reviews

funeraldancer's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I enjoyed this book, but I think that many of the changes they made in the show were necessary, to say the least. I think those changes also improved upon the narrative laid out in the original work while remaining largely faithful to its core plot and characters. Now about the book... I would say it drags for the first half but becomes much more engaging by the time

Louis and Claudia reach Europe

. If you are a fan of the show I would recommend reading mostly for the added lore. I'm excited to read the sequels considering they go more into that mythology - and also my partner and I found almost every book, in great shape, hard cover at a thrift store in the same day. Thank you to whoever's grandma died for that to happen, RIP.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racism, Slavery, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Classism

cheyennamarshall's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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 Anne Rice really didn't care if you wanted to live or die when you finished this, huh? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Grief, Murder

Moderate: Child death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Suicide, War

stinekristin's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Grief

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury

citrusking29's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The plot is super interesting but the main character is the most insufferable hypocrite I've ever read the perspective of

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Pedophilia, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder

mlkao94697's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment

emototronic's review against another edition

3.5

dark reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Blood

Minor: Slavery

solusipse's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism

dandyreads's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book is a slog until Part 3. It's an "okay" book, but I would not recommend it. Make sure to read the content warnings before you pick it up, because it's explicit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Racism, Slavery

Moderate: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Colonisation

Minor: Ableism, Child death, Emotional abuse, Death of parent

There are two scenes with children that have a distinct sexual overtone and are given explicit details of their bodies in the narration. As well as the issue of Claudia who

grows into an adult in a child's body

, but is nonetheless described with sexual overtones throughout the book. This is not even to get into the fact that the main character owns a plantation and Rice delves into the reality of the enslaved persons living there, and, while there are no slurs used from what I remember, they are talked about in racist ways throughout the beginning of the novel. In addition to this, while there's a lot less of it, there is xenophobic language towards Eastern Europeans, as well.

tdawgg07's review against another edition

2.5

dark sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I don’t really understand why this book is so beloved. Much of it was very slow and it’s a bit hard to read as a lot of the problematic/evil behavior was pretty gross. I don’t think the point was to glorify their evil behaviors of course, but I don’t enjoy reading it. I can appreciate the internal struggle Louis deals with of what is evil and his guilt over being a vampire, and how immortality itself can be a purposeless and boring existence, but I wouldn’t recommend this book or re read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Murder, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment

leosaki's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I have not had this much fun reading an actual physical book in... honestly, maybe years.
That being said, parts of this might be some of the most atrocious things I've ever read.
In any case, it's greatly entertaining and I love being insufferably insane about it.

Louis my beloved, autistic coded Catholic guilt riddled queer icon who was married and divorced twice without ever even noticing bc he has not one single social skill beyond being polite, you will always be famous. Go send those insanely powerful narcissistic monsters into a downward spiral simply by being pretty and sad🫶🏻✨️✨️

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic