Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes

5 reviews

redheadorganist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective 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? It's complicated

4.75

This book was a slow start for me. At first I thought I might not finish it, but I am so glad I did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Death of parent, War, and Death

Minor: Suicide, Confinement, Sexism, Cursing, Genocide, and Sexual content

gnarlyrockerchick's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

Sometimes POV change can be hard to follow but I didn’t have this issue with this book. It was a little confusing at first with the change in time along with the change in POV. In the end, I think it wove the story together beautifully and I can’t see it bring written any other way. The speeches at the end were powerful I wish they happened in real life. Definitely could see myself re-reading.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, War, Antisemitism, and Death

Minor: Drug use, Suicide, Genocide, and Alcohol

POV Changes

hclin's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Antisemitism

Moderate: Genocide, Alcoholism, and Homophobia

Minor: Suicide

stargazer_ley's review

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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

5.0

I would absolutely recommend this novel even if historical fiction isn't your thing. The characters are compelling and our three leads are strong women each different but so very similar. While reading this book I looked into some of the things to see what was real and learned about the memorial to the burned books

which is brought up in the end and that's pretty neat

.  I was moved by the women in this story and really didn't want to put it down half the time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Alcohol, Torture, Police brutality, Fire/Fire injury, Antisemitism, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism and Biphobia

Minor: Suicide and Adult/minor relationship

ninjamuse's review

emotional informative inspiring 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Police brutality

Minor: Suicide, Hate crime, Antisemitism, Homophobia, and Alcoholism