Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin

108 reviews

sarahshock's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

This is one of the best books I've ever read. 10/10 recommended!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Forced institutionalization, Toxic friendship, Blood, Self harm, Cursing, Death, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Suicide attempt, Grief, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Drug use, Alcohol, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic relationship

summersquash01's review

sad slow-paced

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

4.75

So I adored the book. I loved it so much, i started crying in the end.

WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE FINNY 😭

Laura nowlin has a very basic style of writing, however i loved it. Just a small criticism: the plot was way too slow. In my opinion,

the breakup with Jamie should’ve been way earlier than in the last 150 pages or smth

to actually let the relationship between autumn and finny flourish. 
The beginning was interesting, but the middle was quite boring, the end took me by surprise tho. 
Overall, i loved the book, and i read the second one (if only i had told her) in a day or so. Absolutely adored it. Thank you for blessing me with this masterpiece. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Blood

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Child death, Blood, Death, Car accident, Grief, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Pregnancy

Minor: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Alcohol, Death, Grief, Blood, Self harm, Gore, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

aaashtyn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

What a chaotic ending!!! This was an enjoyable read that I’m sure many can relate to. The characters were sweet and captured those high school thoughts and feelings. There were times I thought there wasn’t much occurring in the plot, and it’s a pretty quick read. Overall great book and a good read if you want a plot twist!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Death, and Pregnancy

Minor: Alcohol

mm_bookclub's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-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? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

heyitsseph's review

emotional medium-paced

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

4.5

It’s a best friends to lovers teen romance book. The main characters are Phineas Smith and Autumn . There mothers being best friends from girlhood and they both got pregnant together. Autumn refers phineas smith’s mother as Aunt Angelina . They live like next door to each other . Autumn nickname for Phineas as Finny. They have been best friends since the day they born. They were rarely apart they everything together. In high school is when things start to change for them hanging with different groups of people. They just grew apart. They started to date other people Autumn was dating Jamie . Finny was dating a girl named Sylvie.. when she sees Finny has these doubts iconic to the title of the books. There’s such a huge cliffhanger at the end . What just happened??

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Suicide, Death, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

elisavlahopoulou's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

lindseybarnett's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Cursing, Death, Self harm, Child death, Alcohol, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

Minor: Sexual assault, Violence, Sexual violence, and Vomit

brighta's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Vomit, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

sigreads_'s review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Death

brookepawloske's review

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault, Suicide, and Suicide attempt