Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

13 reviews

kitausu's review

emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

5.0

This book had me crying by page 16 and kept me emotional throughout the entire thing. What an absolute lovely gut punch of a book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Grief, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Suicide attempt, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Self harm, Rape, Pedophilia, and Medical content

kwaterlander's review

emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.5

Overall this was a super fun read. It was heart-warming and a nice change of pace for me. I enjoyed the slight mystery and never felt like anyone was in serious danger. It touches on some heavy topics. I think it could have benefited from being a little bit longer to flesh out the main plot and some of the side characters. 
I thoroughly enjoyed it and will be following this author for more.

The main characters aren’t very diverse, in my opinion. There are some minor side characters mentioned that add to the diversity, but not much. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Death

Minor: Child death, Terminal illness, Miscarriage, and Suicidal thoughts

laura_berger's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Grief

Minor: Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Miscarriage, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Drug use, Rape, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, and Abortion