Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed

17 reviews

aakhil's review

emotional reflective relaxing slow-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Gore

sapphire_mayo's review

tense fast-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

3.75

The characters in this are very vivid but I found that I just didn't care that much about the plot. A very emotion-based plot structure as the forefront and then the events were more just there to get us there.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Suicide attempt

crownoflaurel's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic, Chronic illness, Suicide attempt, and Gun violence

Minor: Pedophilia

lucystolethesky's review against another edition

hopeful mysterious reflective tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Abandonment, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Blood, Gore, and Gaslighting

raptorq's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Animal death

Moderate: Blood and Suicide attempt

Minor: Medical content and Vomit

hanz's review

reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Moderate: Suicide and Suicide attempt

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-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

3.0

Theoretically super interesting setting and contemplation on more mundane post-apocalyptic life and bodily autonomy, but unfortunately pretty underdeveloped in practice -- definitely feel like the concepts would fit better in a longer work with more fleshed out characters and relationships.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, and Animal death

Moderate: Blood, Medical content, Violence, Gore, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Pedophilia, Ableism, Colonisation, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Abortion, and Suicide

Parasitic infection.

florecita_lectora's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Confinement, Suicide attempt, and Gaslighting

foremmarightnow's review

dark hopeful fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore and Suicide attempt

sheeky's review against another edition

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

I'm in love with this novella. There's something so compelling about a story that leads up to a decision--I think from the start, the exact ending was fairly easy to assume, but that didn't matter one bit because this is one of those stories that is very much "about the journey." Premee Mohamed is an incredibly gifted writer, and her words ebb and flow with a stoic lyricism that mirrors both Reid's emotional journey and the throb of the fungus beneath her skin.

And that's what I mean when I say this novella is "emotional--" not that it will necessarily make you cry (though I did,) but that it fully captures the complexity of a "simple decision." It understands what leaving truly means when you're in community, the tension between the individual and the together and how and where those lines blur. It understands rings of family and left-behind mothers and growing pains and not knowing what you want. It also understands anger, the rage of being handed the remains of a world someone else failed to save. In Reid and Henryk and the rest of the town, Mohamed has written a very clear picture of what we might look like once the climate apocalypse has truly ravaged us, privileged bubbles and all.

The body horror bits of this book are also very good. I won't say too much for fear of spoiling, but: very, very good.

I tend not to buy books until after I've read them; this is 100% something I want on my shelf!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Animal death, Death, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Ableism and Pedophilia

Re: content warnings-- the pedophilia mention is brief, implied, and does not directly involve any named characters.