Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Brighton Rock by Graham Greene

7 reviews

literatureboysmelancholy's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Death, Murder, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Misogyny, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual content and Death of parent

dalsegno's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Death, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual content

holliesatchell's review against another edition

dark slow-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

2.5

I read this book for school and received about what I expected. Quite boring and slow, but I never like the books I have to read for school anyway, so my review is completely biased.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Murder, Sexism, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Violence

lucy12345's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

mbrighty's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Violence, Murder, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Alcohol and Cursing

_cheshirecxt's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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? It's complicated

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Violence, and Suicidal thoughts

young marriage

aqsa_ayman's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

3.0

I liked how well formed the characters were, and in particular Pinkie's repulsion towards sex and marriage. That's a perspective I haven't seen before in books and shows with similar themes. Pinkie's fragile ego and vulnerability is so exposed that you feel numb about his treatment of Rose and the other characters. It's why Ida's free and jovial personality works so well in opposition to him, although they have very little contact.

I do however feel the story was dull and didn't match up to the depth of these characters, and there was a lot of dense writing that I didn't care for. It doesn't seem like Pinkie is a particularly talented or clever boss, so I wonder if I missed how he got top rank in their gang after Kite.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Toxic relationship

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Murder