Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Everything Under by Daisy Johnson

24 reviews

ellenskone's review against another edition

3.5

I liked the experimental writing style once I got used to it. You will hate this if you hate when authors don' t use quotation marks or when the story is told out of order. I knocked off half a star for being pretty predictable. It's very dark. If you know the story of Oedipus then you already know what's going to happen more or less. But then the context clues and foreshadowing beat you over the head with it. There's still a few shocking moments toward the end. I need to sit with this story for a bit. It was a lot. No happy endings here. Read trigger warnings and themes before reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Suicide and Incest

booksandbabble's review

dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Suicide, and Murder

Moderate: Dementia and Abandonment

Minor: Cancer

river_dithers's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.75

This book was definitely an odd read. I had read Fen by Johnson and was excited to see the emerging fantastical elements, but this book felt darker and less empowering. The descriptions were beautiful and Gretel was a loveable character, but I found it difficult to overcome her mother and the story of Margot. I wanted to see Margot live. Sometimes the plot felt murky, as it became difficult to distinguish between the separate narratives, but I really enjoyed how the ending rounded out, and how Gretel's career ebbed into the early memories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, and Incest

miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

Surprisingly suspenseful

‘Anything can be lost if you try hard enough’

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Death, Animal death, Death of parent, Dementia, Self harm, and Suicide

imds's review against another edition

• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Grief, Self harm, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Dementia, Incest, Infertility, Kidnapping, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Deadnaming, and Dysphoria

aisabel's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest and Dementia

Moderate: Death of parent, Self harm, and Sexual content

Minor: Suicide and Suicide attempt

veara_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, and Suicide

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Child death, Eating disorder, Animal cruelty, and Self harm

bugle's review against another edition

dark emotional tense 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Suicide, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, and Dementia

Moderate: Deadnaming

Minor: Cancer

zed_dog's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

4.0

Going in knowing this book is based on the myth of Oedipus helped inure me to the creepiness of the plot elements which are drawn directly from the source material, so that I could focus on the beautiful lyrical language, the evocative setting (somewhat gothic in its power over plot and characters), and the deep emotional intricacies of the central mother-daughter relationship. Manifests the theme of inevitability from Oedipus in interesting ways.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, and Alcoholism

akkun's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Death, and Suicide

Moderate: Dementia

Minor: Deadnaming