Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

17 reviews

maria_elizabeth_harden_pope's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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? It's complicated

2.75

I think there's really too much going on in this book. The meditations on women, on new life, on pregnancy, on the divine are really beautiful, and I appreciate the main character and her perspective a bunch. But the plot well.... it's hard to follow... there's maybe not quite enough exposition about the world (which is maybe intentional- but it could have been executed better)... and a lot of plot points feel sort of out of the blue/ not well-incorporated. I also think that the way that the main character's indigenous identity was explored felt like an afterthought. It could have been more integral to the book or not done at all.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Trafficking, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, and Forced institutionalization

badmom's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Colonisation, Death, Medical trauma, Confinement, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Racism, Murder, Violence, Emotional abuse, and Abandonment

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Torture, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Panic attacks/disorders, and Genocide

rachaelwho's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective 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? No

4.75

Narration by the author is great.
I think the people who didn't like this book wanted it to be spookier and more sci-fi. This is a book about motherhood, womanhood, pregnancy, autonomy, family, ancestry, and what we owe each other. Authoritarianism and institutionalization, too. It is also about climate and catastrophe, near-future dystopia. The sci-fi conceit isn't superfluous, but this isn't quite "genre fiction" and if you wanted to get into that, I guess you probably wouldn't love this one. Reviews hung up on the "science" of the setting not making sense are... Really stunningly, jaw-droppingly missing the forest.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Pregnancy, Death, Child death, Confinement, Deportation, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Medical content, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

madarauchiha's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-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

5.0

 ❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜  my about / byf / CW info carrd: uchiha-madara 💜 💙 💚 💛 🧡 ❤️

 “How come you’ve looked after me?” I ask Hiro just as he’s about to go. “How come you found me at the hospital? Brought me the messages?”
Hiro looks surprised at my question, taken aback, as though I should know. “You were on my route,” he says. 

Fave line. Hiro being a USPS Postal worker, for context.

content warnings
minor abortion, asian racism, child abuse, cissexism, drug use hard drugs, emetophobia, rape, sexual content, sexual violence, torture, victim blaming

medium alcohol use, anti evolutionary sentiment, anti indigenous racism, anti vaccination sentiment, child abuse, child death, colonization, gambling, kidnapping, racism, suicide ideation, whorephobic language

major animal death, bullying, childbirth, confinement, medical abuse, medical content, misogyny, police, police abuse, pregnancy, religion catholic, reproductive rights, slut shaming, unsanitary, 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Pregnancy, Confinement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Police brutality, and Racism

Moderate: Alcohol, Child death, Child abuse, Colonisation, Kidnapping, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Racism, Abortion, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Vomit, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, and Ableism

becksusername's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? No

5.0

Wow this did not have a happy ending. At all. I really wanted it to. This book was so good and had such an original premise, I was definitely hooked immediately and tore through it.

Re-Read: Holy fucking shit I love this book. The ending fucked me up all over again, but in a different way because I knew what was coming.

the part at the end where she describes the end of winter in Minnesota had me on the brink of tears. We don't know it's heaven. Fuck. And of course the whole premise is so much creepier given the current state of women's bodily autonomy in the US. Fuuuuuck

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Confinement, Outing, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Murder and Kidnapping

Minor: Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Gun violence, and Infertility

corinnereads7's review against another edition

challenging dark funny sad slow-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Infertility, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Murder, Pregnancy, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

mikki_9's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Religious bigotry

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Torture