Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Yes, Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage

54 reviews

soljovis's review

challenging dark fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Domestic abuse, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, and Fire/Fire injury

juliaureads's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Suicide, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Physical abuse

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

zookie_b's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.25

Devastating in the most perfect way. Lost .75 star because it’s hard to say I enjoyed this whole book. There were many moments where I wanted to give up due to the subject matter and trauma our characters go through but I’m glad I continued as the real artistry and insight came in the last third of the book. A hard read, sure to haunt me for a while, but one I’m glad I finished.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, and Panic attacks/disorders

painausten314's review

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Rape, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Trafficking

Moderate: Homophobia

chickenx1000's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful medium-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? Yes

5.0

This book truly knocked the wind out of me.

Dark, emotional, and genre-bending. At times my pulse quickened; I thought "perhaps this more of a thriller than I thought", the darker end of the domestic suspense genre. 

It had a little bit of the "offer that's too good to be true" thriller trope at first, then it had a little bit of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf twisted love games, it's got the compound and the vile rich and famous, then it veers to outright horror [CW: the book contains some graphic sexual assault, drug use, and mental health themes].

And then, it simmered into lit fic territory, introspective, observational, culminating into a series of emotional gut-punches.

Personally, I was moved by the religious commentary, the self-loathing narrative, and the unlikely, bittersweet redemption story at its heart.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Rape, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Suicide

deezy's review

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Trafficking

schnurln's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Rape, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, Incest, and Sexual content

Minor: Eating disorder

jonbar94's review

dark tense fast-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

2.25

This reads like a bad but fun AO3 story of evil capitalists and sex dungeons, but then the last third devolves into a fucking Murphy’s Law mess. It’s not good!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Religious bigotry, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Suicide

nicsnovellife's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, Rape, and Self harm

uhhlexiconic's review

dark reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.75

A dark novel that carefully and thoroughly explores how the powerful can trap their victims, Yes, Daddy loses steam once it has to deal with the aftermath. The detailed horror in the first half stands stark against the sparse way the latter half explores the aftermath. A central relationship between the lead and the person his narration speaks to is also thinly drawn. Ultimately, Yes, Daddy seems far more interested in the traumatizing moments than what comes after.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Gaslighting, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, Incest, and Grief

It seems strange that a book so preoccupied with Me Too often villainizes the female characters. At one point, our narrator points out the inherent misogyny in a queer film he just watched; the question seems like one that could be levied against the author as well.