Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

The Burning God by R.F. Kuang

43 reviews

ainhoah's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Cannibalism, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Rape, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, and War

Moderate: Miscarriage, Slavery, Abortion, and Genocide

emilineopines's review

challenging dark medium-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

4.5

A gut punch. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Suicide attempt, Violence, War, Colonisation, Death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

opossumom's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, War, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Racism, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Alcohol, Xenophobia, Vomit, Violence, Murder, Misogyny, Genocide, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

catusgeekus's review

dark tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Gore, Violence, Animal cruelty, Blood, Cannibalism, Death, Excrement, Genocide, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicide attempt, Torture, Vomit, and War

toffishay's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Colonisation, Self harm, Murder, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Violence, Confinement, Death, War, Suicidal thoughts, Genocide, Child death, Child abuse, Gore, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Grief, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Religious bigotry, Torture, Suicide attempt, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Drug use, Medical trauma, and Trafficking

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Vomit, Trafficking, Abortion, Animal cruelty, and Addiction

comraderowan94's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Self harm, Addiction, and Genocide

middumullu's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

still really enjoyed it but i think by this point i had gotten a bit tired of all of the same circles that have been happening over the past few books. still really enjoyed the characters

but i missed them all being together all the time,

and i felt like some of the newer characters were a lot less fleshed out. i think i liked the ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Excrement, Gore, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Grief, Rape, Self harm, Death, Medical content, Sexism, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Vomit, War, Xenophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, Blood, Classism, Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Violence, Colonisation, Cursing, Dysphoria, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Cannibalism, Torture, Ableism, and Abandonment

Minor: Abortion and Miscarriage

again there was so much goin on in here that it is hard to remember in totality if something should be graphic/moderate/mild. for instance - there isn't as much medical content/trauma in this book as there were in others but it was mentioned several times and (to me) clearly informs character's actions (as do many of these tags). theres a scene where the characters visit a town that has been taken over by the west/Hesperians .

fruitea's review

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

i rarely cry when reading books but. i’m sitting here at a quarter past midnight and i’m sobbing and i can’t even explain why. i’m emotional but i understand why things ended the way they did. it was depressing and so fucking sad i went on a rollercoaster of emotions but it’s like the rollercoaster broke down before it got to hope or happiness or even the smallest bit of relief. 

the depiction of war and conflict is brutally blunt, i said this in my review of the dragon emperor as well. some books tend to… romanticise war, turn it into some dramatic love story where the characters are invincible and benevolent and altruistic. but there’s none of that bullshit in this book, because war isn’t pretty or glorious, the people who suffer the most during wars are innocent civilians, who starve so the soldiers can have their rations, whose towns are pillaged, who are mercilessly killed by the enemy soldiers, even if they’re defenceless. the book constantly reminds you of this fact. you can’t forget it or ignore it like the big important political people who sit on their thrones waiting for the army to win the war for them. 

i think what i appreciate most about the trilogy is the brutally realistic portrayal of the people. not their abilities, but the way they live their lives, how they react to things. sure, we like to think that we’re good and kind, but realistically, if we were in a war zone, starving and desperate and afraid, we would be utterly selfish. we wouldn’t share resources with the other innocents, wouldn’t jump in front of a blade to protect a stranger. regardless of who wins, a lot of people would accept the victors because they’d do whatever they had to to survive. 

yes, it’s disheartening, more so because we see it from the perspective of someone who is on the frontlines and has seen first hand the cruelty of the enemy. these poor kids, i know they’re a couple of years older than me and aren’t really kids by the end, but… they’re so traumatised. they suffered throughout their entire lives. they’re so young. the things they’ve experienced have shattered their minds, but that’s the bitter truth of any war - no one emerges unscathed. 

anyway i went on a. tangent. my brain is scrambled with the emotions i am feeling and also the fact that it is now 24 minutes to 1 am so i will end it here. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

caregorman's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.0

UM SO IM NOT OKAY. Truly this series was just corruption v redemption v corruption again. Emotional turmoil being thrown into loving and hating every single character and there being no good outcomes. Also the amount of war and graphic scenes were mildly unbearable BUT shit got so wild I couldn’t stop. Objectively, really masterful world building and commentary. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, and Violence

ellaensorcelee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense slow-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

4.0

Overall this was a good conclusion to the trilogy!  I really liked seeing Rin's development and seeing the moment when she realizes what she's become.  There were some parts in the middle and towards the end that dragged a bit, and I would have liked to have seen some loose ends tied up a bit more neatly.  But in general it was still a satisfying end to Rin's story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Child death, Body horror, Cursing, Gore, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Cannibalism, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Physical abuse, Racism, Xenophobia, and Genocide

Minor: Suicide attempt, Torture, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Abortion, and Alcohol

Frequent mentions of atrocities committed in the first two books (Golyn Niis, what happened to the Speerlies, what Rin did to the Federation), but they are not described in explicit detail. Frequent mention of human experimentation on the Speerlies by the Gray Company. Some moderately graphic description of starvation and mutilation of corpses.