Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

43 reviews

marpaige's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Grief, Medical content, Terminal illness, Suicide, Child death, Death, and Suicidal thoughts

elishacarles's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Terminal illness, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic

rhi_reading's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

My favourite book of the year, maybe ever. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Medical content, Death, Death of parent, Child death, Terminal illness, and Suicidal thoughts

itspronouncedtessa's review

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Pandemic/Epidemic, Grief, Suicide, Terminal illness, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, and Death

singrequiem's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

If you want to be  emotionally devastated in just the most beautiful way over and over again - then this is the book for you. Gorgeous.  I may come back and finish this when I am emotionally stable enough to really give it the proper review it deserves.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Pandemic/Epidemic, Child death, Medical trauma, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Chronic illness, Grief, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Suicide, Violence, Addiction, Animal death, Suicide attempt, Blood, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, and Murder

Minor: Classism and Colonisation

There are graphic descriptions of decomposition and bodily changes in a detached, clinical way. (Alongside less detached scenes)

kierstyn's review against another edition

sad 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? It's complicated

2.0

I really had to hype myself up to speed read finish this book. I really wanted to quit when there were a few chapters left.

this book is about a pandemic that breaks out across earth and through different chapters we see how the pandemic affects different Japanese families around the world in different years after the pandemic hits. this book is sad and full of grief. it also introduces far-fetched future ideas like talking pigs, a disease that turns hearts into lungs, and rollercoasters to kill children.

I am so disappointed because on chapter 1 I was like omg this is gonna be a 5 star book. but my rating kept going down and down as the chapters went on.

every single chapter explores the same theme (grief and loved ones dying) but with different characters and a different setting. it's very repetitive and some chapters I was just like wtf am I reading??  

there are only 2-3 chapters with women as the main characters. there are no queer characters and everyone is in a hetero relationship. each character talks exactly the same so I cannot distinguish one person from the next.

the last chapter felt like it was from another book altogether.

this may be a good book for you to read if you're struggling with grief or if you lost a loved one in the pandemic. it may help you know you are not alone in your feelings. but other than that I wouldn't recommend it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

anni_swanilda's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Child death, Chronic illness, Grief, Death of parent, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Medical content, Mental illness, Suicide, and Animal death

Minor: Cancer and Sexual content

staysunny's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Cancer, and Death of parent

Minor: Infidelity and Alcohol

jht5791's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Suicide

alireads's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, Death of parent, Medical content, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Cancer, and Child death