Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Kobiety by Kristin Hannah

1030 reviews

chelle's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, War

shannonswick's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

sicksucculent's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous tense

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

l_heathman's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, War

Moderate: Miscarriage

chl0e's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Police brutality

Minor: Racism, Abortion

thebranchlibrary_'s review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Grief, War

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Miscarriage, Blood, Suicide attempt

Minor: Infidelity, Car accident

gracetayloe27's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional inspiring sad 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Suicide attempt

manda434's review against another edition

2.0

dark sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Kristin Hannah continues to write compelling, yet depressingly bleak stories.  Her portrayal of PTSD and the resulting SUD is trauma porn albeit consistent with what I have seen in the homeless, DV and SPMI populations I have worked with for the last 20+ years.  I can only pray she uses the proceeds of this book to support women's veteran's mental health and chemical dependency programs.  
Very well written- 4.75 stars, Complex characters 4.75 stars, no likeable characters outside of Frankie and her two besties.  I felt like the book kept on going so she could make another bad thing happen to poor Frankie. Then, Hannah ended it so abruptly it feels like she needed to make a happy ending.  Maybe she couldn't think of a complex or satisfactory resolution for her character, much like the resolution of the Vietnam war.  I can't recommend it but 253, 147 people voted it the goodreads best historical fiction of 2024.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Medical content, Suicide attempt, War

deanaj's review against another edition

3.5

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Loved the first part, second part not as much. So, the 3.5 is for the overall story but a definite 5 stars for the first part. The description of war scenes, dealing with trauma and the lives of soldiers and nurses were extremely realistic. Whilst the second part did a good job with describing the experience of someone with PTSD, I cannot say that I was a fan of the romantic side or the book's ending 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Medical content, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Blood

Minor: Child death, Suicide attempt

sara_shocks's review against another edition

2.5

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Pros:  thoroughly researched, compassionate. The section in Vietnam is very evocative.  Cons (for me personally):  some of the social views feel much more "modern-cast-back-to-the-past" in a slightly clunky way, the last half-to-one-third feels more like melodrama when there was already a rich vein of drama to tap.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Vomit, Pregnancy