Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass

3 reviews

leanniefae's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Outing, Religious bigotry, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, Biphobia, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Torture, Deadnaming, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Racism, Toxic relationship, and Self harm

mrkdk's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cursing, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, and Deadnaming

Minor: Self harm, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

biblioleah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

this was a really strong book, and i think it brings a lot of great discussions to the table. i did have a few issues with the cheating and the characters and the timeline of things (like the whole book takes place over basically one day and that makes zero sense) but i’d easily still recommend this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Transphobia, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Racism and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Deadnaming