Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith

90 reviews

mariapatrickwrites's review

emotional reflective sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

kjofalltrades's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Racism, Infertility, Mental illness, Medical content, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Infidelity, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Child death, and Sexual content

jennrid's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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

Moderate: Suicide, Child death, and Suicide attempt

cyndi1966's review

emotional funny hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Racism, Infertility, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Infidelity and Death

Minor: Alcohol, Child death, and Fire/Fire injury

thatsssorachael's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Sexual content, Medical content, and Fire/Fire injury

jgrayreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring 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

5.0

The ending surprised me. Long build up, but worth it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Suicide, Death, Infertility, and Suicide attempt

briaraq's review

challenging emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

3.0

I felt really weird about a lot of things that happened. Tallie was very unprofessional to me. I understand that Emmett/Rye isn’t her client, but she kept referring to him as one in her head. Despite this, she still kiss him and had small intimate moments with him. That’s really gross and weird to me.

This book was really well-written, though. Cross-Smith wrote a heavy and beautiful story. Tallie was just weird.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt

Minor: Suicide and Murder

ssinforshort's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

2.5

This was entertaining and problematic, like a Lifetime movie. There are secrets, romance, fires, secret identities, hospitals, and more. 

Cross-Smith writes well, but I feel like I was tricked into reading a Christian light novel. 

Also, the romance aspect should have been removed from the book. Tallie meets Emmett while he is attempting suicide and doesn't reveal that she is a therapist. Still, she uses therapy techniques in their conversations while also lusting after him. 

Lastly, there were so many art pieces referenced that I felt like I needed an art history course to keep up. I did a lot of googling while reading this. That may be just a me thing, though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Racism

jennifergbenson's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

mj_james_writes's review

HP mentioned but also a whole scene going on about the joy of HP combined with questionable therapist ethics. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

Minor: Transphobia