Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith

125 reviews

fiddlyfox's review

adventurous funny hopeful reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

elisalasater's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Infertility, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

grumpyreading's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

3.0

📚 Review: Damn. This book was heavy. I had a hard time putting it down, and when I had to, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. While this book is fiction, the mystery of what happened was happening kept me reading, though I did guess it. 

I felt like some of the characters were well written while others weren’t, and a lot of ethical lines were crossed by these characters. I did like this story and some of the dialogue, and am curious about the writers other books! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

_thestoryofus's review

dark emotional inspiring 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Grief

Moderate: Racism

fieldsandfeels's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

bex2611's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

rjselby's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

smt109's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Child death, Death, Infertility, and Grief

swimmer120x's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

This book was a good, but a hard read. It discusses the story of a person who is suicidal, along with another main character, Tallie, who has her own struggles in life. The one part that significantly bothered me is that Tallie is a licensed, clinical therapist and does one thing in which I find to be unethical, if not illegal, which I will describe in the next sentence. Spoiler, but not spoiler, she rescues the suicidal person, but does not bring him to the hospital for an evaluation. She states that she does not have to report this, even as a mandated reporter, because "he is not a client of hers". I feel like this is ethically wrong and potentially even illegal. Tallie, in the end, does end up staying with him for 72 hours, similar to a psych hold, although, that is not her original intention (so she can't use that as an excuse as to why she didn't bring him the the hospital for a more thorough evaluation). If you can get past this fact, then I would recommend this book. If you cannot, then this book may not be for you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Infertility, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

vanesst's review

dark emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child death, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual content, and Alcohol