Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

The Measure by Nikki Erlick

23 reviews

maggiekate's review against another edition

emotional mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Death, Grief, and Gun violence

Moderate: Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Cursing

Minor: Death of parent, Terminal illness, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

whimsykat's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Gun violence, and Grief

Moderate: Murder, Suicide, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Suicide attempt, and Terminal illness

Minor: Death of parent, Car accident, and War

katrinarose's review

emotional hopeful inspiring 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

I really enjoyed this book, it was heavy on character development and I think it was done really well. All the main characters felt real and I cared about them all. It was heavy on political messaging and while the author and I clearly have the same political affiliation, I felt like at times she wasn’t giving the reader enough credit to read between the lines, and it was a bit overdone. I think the moral messages would be completely lost on someone who didn’t share political ideologies for this reason. However, the premise really makes you think about the far reaching effects of these strings would have in our society and I enjoyed how the author’s incorporated her speculations about this. It’s something I think I’ll be thinking about for a long time.

One thing that I felt like was never addressed which seemed obvious to me is determinism vs free will. The strings seem to mean determinism is the way the world works, yet no one in the book seems to think this, or has any sort of existential crisis about it. Everyone just seems to come to the conclusion that they still have free will even though they can’t stop their death (or life). I think this topic should have been explored more, or at least discussed.

Overall, a fascinating premise (just don’t expect a sci fi novel) which delivers on character development and societal commentary. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gun violence, and Death

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Murder, Terminal illness, Violence, and War

megs_readstoomuch's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Hate crime, Death, Ableism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Grief

btwnprintedpgs's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Violence, Murder, Religious bigotry, War, Mass/school shootings, and Death

Minor: Drug use, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Drug abuse, and Terminal illness

Mentions HP

alymarie2197's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Minor: Suicide attempt and War

loseitifyouneedit's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

Moderate: Grief, Pregnancy, and Death

Minor: Suicide attempt

leebeeloves's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Cursing, Death of parent, Outing, Pregnancy, War, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

kelseyr713's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

2.0

Too schmaltzy for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Bullying, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, War, and Pregnancy

Minor: Suicide attempt, Racism, Suicide, Outing, and Sexism

kaitlynnnng's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful fast-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? It's complicated

3.0

This book started off STRONG, so I thought I would end up rating it 5 stars, classifying it was one of my favorite books I read this year. I certainly still enjoyed the book, but it wasn’t what I expected.

I liked how the characters and their stories connected. I was frustrated, though, that we never got an answer as to how or why the strings appeared. I get the symbolism: in life, we don’t always know the “why” nor can we always control what happens to us, but we can control our reaction to it; I just wish we got an answer in the story.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Cancer, Outing, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, War, Car accident, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts