Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Kobiety by Kristin Hannah

1033 reviews

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

vireogirl's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

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Stayed up late to read this, with both cats sleeping on my legs. Masterfully done. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Cursing, Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Vomit, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy

sierraclimbs's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional informative fast-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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This is a beautiful book. I love being able to learn about history in the form that makes you feel like you’re consuming fiction. 
You can feel the care put in to crafting this story. Definitely something I’ll be recommending to many in the future. 
The only reason it wasn’t quite a 5 is that I could see a lot of the “twists” coming. But otherwise, enjoyed this book immensely. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, War

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Alcohol

The first half of this book is about the Vietnam war & the second half is about the trauma/ptsd experienced in the aftermath. Every graphic detail felt important to the story. But it is indeed violent & traumatic at many stages of the story.

chococattie's review against another edition

3.0

emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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this isn’t my usual read, but I was left wanting more from the storyline and the characters. it was really fast paced and I wish we got more time to enjoy the good times and grieve the bad times with Frankie. I also had no idea the war went on for so long and was so disgusted reading about it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Miscarriage, Blood, Suicide attempt, War, Injury/Injury detail

carliekw's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark inspiring sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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

Graphic: Alcoholism, Gore, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, War, Injury/Injury detail

I was reading this while my kid was getting a haircut. Another mom said “that book just keeps getting better.” Multiple jaw-drop moments, personal struggle, historical events, all wrapped into one.

ann_banan's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War

jrow's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional informative sad 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: Complicated

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Exceptional read. I love a book that makes me exclaim out loud from a twist I didn’t see. Despite the incredibly heavy topics, I definitely recommend this book.

I had no idea that the women combat nurses were treated so poorly when they returned. Even worse than the men. They received no help because “there were no women in ‘Nam and she couldn’t have seen combat.” But it is literally in their title. Combat Nurse. It’s true they didn’t see one combat, they saw the aftermath of each and every one. They stitched, sawed, held the body parts together of the men after each and every combat. They lost more patients than they could count every single day. Reading this part was infuriating, but it needed to be told.

“The women had a story to tell.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Pregnancy

Minor: Car accident

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michellehebert's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective 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: Complicated

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Wonderful story, great characters, lovely writing as always from Kristin Hannah. Highly recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail