Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

21 reviews

neoralisa22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Darrow is the reason you shouldn't give a 16 years old too much power. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Physical abuse, Murder, Excrement, Blood, Violence, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Colonisation, Sexual assault, Rape, Classism, Suicide attempt, and Torture

Minor: Medical trauma, Cannibalism, Misogyny, and Slavery

dennyiii's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Rape, Cannibalism, Classism, Colonisation, Misogyny, Murder, Animal cruelty, Grief, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Body horror, Suicide attempt, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Child death, and Sexual assault

sadie_honey's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Suicide attempt, War, Confinement, Sexual assault, Grief, Blood, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Slavery, Torture, Rape, Cursing, Death, Excrement, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Bullying, and Cannibalism

l_piller's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Sexual assault, Violence, Classism, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, War, Body horror, Colonisation, Gore, Grief, Slavery, and Suicide attempt

lemonwrlds's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Alcohol, Animal death, Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Body horror, Cannibalism, Classism, Death, Domestic abuse, Child death, Confinement, Blood, Excrement, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Violence, War, Ableism, Child abuse, Genocide, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide attempt, Torture, Murder, Self harm, Kidnapping, Colonisation, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Drug use, and Grief

Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual content

luxxltyd's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Death, Grief, Blood, Murder, Rape, and War

Moderate: Death of parent, Medical content, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

Minor: Cannibalism and Sexual content

imaginary_sauropod's review against another edition

fast-paced

3.0

Darrow is a hell driver for his mining community, a skilled mining position. When his wife shows him that his life of serving to prepare Mars for habitation is a lie and then chooses to die during the punishment of lashing, he ends up being taken into a group called the sons of ares to help take down the rigid hierarchy of their society. This involves becoming a gold and playing their war game.
It is a young adult version of the hunger games. I almost put it down before the story really picked up because it is very sexist to both men and women. It is an exciting read, but it is not very forward looking. It also fails to frame rape during war as a power deal instead of a lust driven spoil of war. And an almost rapist/likely raped in the past gets no punishment because the woman said she didn’t want that (and that was that even though she was likely still in the shock phase and would’ve had different thoughts and feelings about it later as she continued to be in the same group and her almost rapist is rewarded with positions of power).
 It’s like 1940’s gender with modern day rape apologist thinking (yes they are upset and they try to say it leaves scares that don’t heal, but it is lip service compared to what happens). Don’t worry, the main character isn’t the one responsible for trying to rape or almost rape, and many will be able to get through the story and think it did enough to say rape bad. I personally think it did not.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Suicide attempt and Rape

nicoledelairs's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

I listened to the audiobook narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds. I read the physical book a few years ago and enjoyed it but never finished the series, and since I have a commute to work every day I thought I'd try out the audiobook. Reynolds did a phenomenal job bringing Darrow and others to life with his narration and  I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Death, Slavery, Child death, Cursing, Blood, Gore, Murder, War, and Classism

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Cannibalism, and Rape

writingcaia's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Reread:
You can read the original review below, but now let me just say, bloodydamn I’m crying. 
I freaking love this book so much! 
Somehow, maybe because I knew what was coming I enjoyed it even more this time, it truly showed me the mastery of the author in all the details and foreshadowing, there’s such complexity to the characters and plot, it’s truly astounding to me.
It was an emotional rollercoaster, especially those last 50 pages. Geez, my heart was hammering in my chest for all of it.
It’s good to remind myself why this series is on my top 5!

Original review:
I wasn’t enthralled to begin with, maybe due the sci-fi world (which is not usually my thing) or the slight dragging of the introspective nature of the main character and world build, but wow did I change my mind. What a bloodydam good book! 
Great characters, amazing world build, with incredible fluidity between the violence and the unbelievable action scenes with the more introspective narratives. Darrow is definitely my favourite character and I’m so thrilled to embark on this life changing journey with him. 
I can’t wait to start Golden Son.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Torture, Excrement, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Animal cruelty, Blood, Animal death, Death, and Gore

Minor: Rape and Cannibalism

astrea13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gore, Cursing, Death, and Blood

Minor: Rape and Cannibalism