Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Infinite Country by Patricia Engel

7 reviews

skylagrace's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Animal death, Rape, Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, and Deportation

Moderate: War and Pregnancy

Minor: Mass/school shootings, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

alyssagirardi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Deportation

Moderate: Racism, Racial slurs, and Suicide

loryyyy's review

emotional 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation and Xenophobia

Moderate: Addiction, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, and Racial slurs

Minor: Mass/school shootings and Suicide

caseythereader's review

adventurous emotional hopeful sad fast-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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Grief, Misogyny, Murder, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Police brutality, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

laurenmcnamara's review

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Racism, Rape, and Suicide

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Terminal illness, and Violence

Minor: Grief, Medical trauma, and Police brutality

mvvelde's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective 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? No

4.5

Infinite Country in a moving and heartbreaking novel about the journey of a family cross-border into the United States. I enjoyed the multiplicity of voices from different characters as they grappled with what life is like not only as a migrant, but as someone who looks different than the white America of the US.

Written works like this are important in that they share the migrant experience—such works show the humanity of the individuals (migrants & families) that government bills and political rhetoric label and treat as undesirables.

I highly recommend picking up a copy of Infinite Country. I loved the author’s writing style and will be excitedly awaiting whatever she writes in the future.

Trigger warnings include animal abuse, violence, and rape, as well as the death of a parent.

Thank you to Net Galley and Avid Reader Press for the eARC.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Violence, Racial slurs, and Racism

Minor: Death of parent, Suicide, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

heather_books's review

challenging emotional reflective 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

4.5

4.5/5 this story is one that I will be thinking about for a while. All the voices weaving in and out following the lives of a family in Colombia and the US. Lots of commentary of life in both counties in the past 25 years woven into a very compelling story. TW: rape, sexual assault, hate speech

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, and Suicide