Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

25 reviews

klosterphobia's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

This book was falsely advertised as a thriller. It is very philosophical and slow. At times this novel felt pretentious. There are three stories in one but it takes forever for them to converge. The most exciting was the slavery plot line but as soon as you were invested it would be another fifty pages of the author reflecting on the meaning of life. I think if I had gone in with different expectations, I would have enjoyed this book more. That being said I did bookmark a few good quotes that might impact me the rest of my life . 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Physical abuse, Self harm, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, and Murder

miniingrid's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: War

carbonnanoman's review against another edition

challenging mysterious sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Suicide, and Violence

paukinra's review against another edition

challenging dark inspiring mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicide, Trafficking, and Injury/Injury detail

accovino's review against another edition

3.5

I really really really wanted to love this. It has so many ideas in it I want to explore and a storyline I found engaging, but it desperately needed an editor. The "excerpts" between the chapters felt forced and disjointed, not like pieces of books. Each one struggled with wanting to be a bombshell pull quote and not every paragraph from a book can have the same weight! At page 400-something I realized I was getting disengaged not because the plot was lagging, but because I'd read so much that would been more effective had it not run on for pages and pages longer than it needed. And the dialogue, oof. I can understand an android being written so stiffly but EVERYONE monologues for far too long when dialogue would work much better. Despite all that I actually did enjoy much of it, I just kind of wish someone else had written it. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Self harm and Suicide

boglord's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Slavery, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Deportation

Minor: Confinement, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, and Death of parent

johnnyboy836's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

quinnyquinnquinn's review against another edition

informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Slavery, Trafficking, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Violence, Police brutality, and Classism

Minor: Mental illness and Suicide

avilareads's review against another edition

mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Slavery, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Self harm

kylieqrada's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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

4.0

As beautiful as this book is on the outside, it absolutely holds up upon reading!! An at-times over my head discussion of consciousness and its various forms with multiple perspectives following seemingly unconnected plots that come together at the enddddd?! Ugh. Love.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Slavery, and Trafficking

Moderate: Animal death, Mental illness, and Suicide

Minor: Self harm