Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

The Principle of Moments by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson

5 reviews

kiwij96's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.25

Great concept but genuinely a painful read. Two reluctant young adults with prophesised roles end up trying to bring down a space tyrant while in search for the FMC's sister.

It was just so painfully repetitive at times and the characters didn't feel fleshed out enough. The friendships and relationships felt rushed but the prophecy was so long drawn out as if to hammer home that there was a prophecy (just in case by the 100th page you were unaware). Parts of the plot felt like they had been forgotten about at times

Qala shows up, tells Obi he has 3 weeks to make a decision and then returns what feels like a month and a half later in the story's timeline.

I also really just didn't understand the relevance of the 1812 storyline other than it being a romance subplot for the majority, it just felt out of place.

The editing process needed to be more thorough, too. This book could have been like 100-150 pages shorter, and was just riddled with spelling and grammatical errors. Also, as much as I love a book with long chapters when done correctly, this made the long chapters FEEL longer.

Felt like DNFing after 50 pages but stuck with it for the rest of the book just to see where it got me. Found family trope was introduced well, good concept and creativity, great introduction to a series albeit a bit long. But generally speaking, this one wasn't for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Grief, Abandonment, Death of parent, Addiction, Classism, Colonisation, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, and Torture

Moderate: Gun violence, Kidnapping, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Blood, Sexual assault, and Pregnancy

sophiesmallhands's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Colonisation, Trafficking, Death, and Slavery

Moderate: Genocide, Grief, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, War, Child abuse, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, and Racism

Minor: Vomit, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, and Rape

syllareads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Violence, Drug use, and War

ruthhelizabeth's review

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

I received an e-arc of this book from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review. 

I loved our main characters, and their flawed, courageous warmth. It was a genuine joy to see their character development throughout their building adventure. I'm not normally a fan of books with British royalty in, but I loved how many parts of this faced up to the most problematic elements of having a prince tied up in colonialism interact with a commoner.

I look forward to seeing how this is developed in the sequel.

I don't read a lot of epic fantasy or sci-fi and at times I was a little lost in all the detail. However, the strong characterisation kept me invested and moving through the bits I was a bit unsure in.

I would echo another reviewer and raise a word of caution around characterising a ruling class as anything similar to a lizard. I felt like if they had been portrayed on screen, this could have been fleshed out more so it was clear they were not similar to antisemitic tropes. However with so much left to the reader's imagination and in the place they held in the society, I felt this might have benefitted from an amendment.

Overall, this was a satisfying and epic tale, and I can imagine myself picking it up again before the sequel comes out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Colonisation, Death, War, Suicide, Abandonment, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Violence, Drug use, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Racism, and Slavery

Moderate: Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Genocide, Suicide attempt, and Xenophobia

Minor: Gore and Death of parent

oweatherwax's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

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

1.0

Found the plot very predictable, this book was full of film sci-fi clichés and no description. This book is nothing new, it could be easily mistaken for Dune or Trek or star wars. There was no exploratiom of deeper themes, a couple of glaring errors, such as wounds miraculously healing or wrong ghosts for the time period. I doubt this book was properly proofread. Not impressed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Suicide, War, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Cursing, Death of parent, Police brutality, Slavery, Blood, Confinement, Antisemitism, Grief, Abandonment, Body horror, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

Minor: Suicide attempt, Rape, Pregnancy, and Abandonment