Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Dreamland by Nicholas Sparks

28 reviews

zemily83's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide attempt

readingonthefly's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

I liked it! It really did feel like all of his previous novels just mushed into one though. Girl on the run with a kid in one storyline and couple falls in love in the other. Need something more original for my next Nicholas Sparks book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Kidnapping, and Mental illness

Minor: Drug use

chelseyyanny's review

medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

Loved Colby ! Was a little confused with Beverly but then it all made sense and it was completely shocking! 3star mainly bc it was slow at first and I was little confused at first. But again not disappointed with another Nicholas Sparks book 💙

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Content Warnings

Minor: Mental illness and Suicide attempt

lzjolo's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Car accident, Mental illness, Suicide, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Death

literarymary95's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

This book gave me mixed feelings. I felt the story portion about Colby was great, but the Beverly portion was really jarring and sudden whenever it switched over to her perspective. I think it took away from the main story and made it hard for me to want to read any of her chapters even if I still did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide attempt, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Sexual content

weasley1912's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

The Story was good for the most part. Honestly I felt like I was gonna rate it pretty high until the last chunk of it. I was interested in all of the characters.  It's weird to me to read about tiktok celebrities as a characterization but it was still neat. It was a nice romance. I thought the second POV was a bit odd just because it was sooo different, but the summery said they were connected in a bizarre way. Yeah they sure were. The second pov isn't real. It's a delusion/hallucinations his sister is having. My experiences definitely impact my opinions here more than most books but my major issues were: 
1. Her mental illness was "a rare type of bipolar 1 which includes a detailed delusions/hallucinations" . To me this feels like a cop out. If this is a real presentation of bipolar,  as he said, it's rare. Which means you are representing a large group of people with symptoms they don't actually experience. The average person isn't going to remember that this was a rare presentation of symptoms . They will hear bipolar and remember this.  Bad representing for mental health matters to me. 
2. One of the last things in the book is him thinking to himself and he says even though he loves his family very much, between his aunt's stroke and his sisters bipolar, they have created a prison for him that he'll never escape. That is an enormous slap in the face to me. As someone who struggles with mental illness it is my biggest fear than my family and friends would feel burdened by me. And to have him say it. Even if it was just to himself. That's devastating to me. 
3. The book ended and the couple had split for good reasons. It was practical and logical and the right decision.  And then the epilogue only exists so they can get back together. It felt cheap.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

ckirkland81's review

emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

I was really confused about 3/4 of the way through this book!  After reading the blurb, I was trying to figure out how this all came together and I was NOT expecting what ended up happening!  This quickly became one of my favorite Sparks books!  Now I remember why I love him so much. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness and Suicide attempt

jade_sanderson's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted relaxing 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Domestic abuse, and Death

klm2620's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

2.5

Slow moving plot with predictable ending

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, and Suicide

Not Sparks’ best novel

thelibraryofjordan's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

Dreamland was my first audiobook and overall I think the narrators did a good job telling the story and personifying the characters.

The dual story narratives were interesting; at first Beverly’s perspective was unexpected, but interesting. It seemed to be misplaced due the drastic change of tone from Colby’s perspective, until toward the end when her story is given more context. Beverly perspective and later context gave the story more substance than if it were to be told without it. 

The timeline of Colby and Morgan’s relationship progressed quickly; they only knew each other for less than a week when they confessed feelings of love. While the timeline is unrealistic, it isn’t shocking from a Nicholas Sparks’ book. 

There were too many references to current “pop” culture, which made some parts of the story cringey. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Suicide attempt