Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

19 reviews

tays_books's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Misogyny, Murder, Pregnancy, Blood, Death, Child death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Violence, Sexism, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child abuse, Excrement, Drug use, Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexual content, Stalking, Pedophilia, Animal death, Cannibalism, Animal cruelty, Lesbophobia, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, and Vomit

Minor: Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, and Infertility

megan_j's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense 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? Yes

4.0

I enjoyed this. The start was slow but it progressed better towards the end. All of the characters are well rounded. At first it felt a bit TOO handmaids tale/hunger games esque but I feel like it lost that towards the end and felt more original. Although there were a lot of characters, they all had individual personalities and they didn’t get mixed around in my head like they sometimes can. Everyone was lovable and well rounded. A true piece of feminist fiction.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Deportation, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Lesbophobia, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Pregnancy, War, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Murder, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

jane_austyn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

pregnancy

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Confinement, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Medical content, Misogyny, Violence, Suicide attempt, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, and Toxic friendship

loveislandkentuky's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny

Moderate: Death

Minor: Cannibalism, Violence, Child abuse, Miscarriage, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Murder, Blood, and Torture

ayllareads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Murder, Gore, Emotional abuse, Death, Blood, and Suicide

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Pregnancy

scburhans's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

A solid social horror book which a good amount of social commentary.
I think this book, while not perfect, is a great introduction to the social horror/speculative fiction genre. Not every detail was perfect and there was some trite and cliche moments, but overall, it had some good messages, and the plot was engaging and entertaining. 

**Slight, indirect spoilers below this point**

Personally, I would have liked a little bit less emphasis placed on the forbidden romance here and more placed on the girls in their actual grace year. It felt a little "you-need-a-man-to-save-you", which I know wasn't intentional, but did irk me a little. I'm sure it was meant to be a freeing thing for Tierney, but I've gotten tired of the whole "girl-has-to-become-sexual-and-immodest-to-be-liberated-or-empowered" thing. It's just swung around to a whole new level of misogyny where you have to be promiscuous or bare a lot of skin to be feminist and that's frankly a crock of bullshit. I will, however, take it in good faith that that was not what Liggett was attempting to say here. 
Other than that, I liked most of the characters and did enjoy their personal development arcs - I do just wish we had seen more of the other girls that Tierney, Gerturde, and Kiersten. The plot was interesting and engaging and it was fun to find all the little homages to classics like The Handmaid's Tale - especially the nod with the red ribbons and white veils. I enjoyed it! And I definitely would be interested in seeing a continuation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Suicide attempt, Torture, Pregnancy, Violence, Misogyny, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Toxic friendship, and Vomit

Moderate: Animal death, Medical content, Adult/minor relationship, Cannibalism, Grief, Infertility, Physical abuse, and Stalking

mjwilliamson's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This book gave me serious The Village vibes from the start. I found it incredibly infuriating to read because the level of oppression just made my blood boil, especially because there were areas where I found the blind belief ridiculous. But that was the point of the book and I think it delivered its message incredibly well. Though some of the tropes were cliche and on the nose, I’m not too sure how else the development could have occurred. All and all a very entertaining read. I’m glad I picked this book up and will definitely recommend it to others. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gore, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Pregnancy, Outing, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Stalking

Minor: Excrement, Infertility, and Medical trauma

ravenclawincabin13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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 is the best distopia I have ever read!!
PLEASE READ THIS, here’s a few reasons;
•Hunger games but feminist but also •stand alone and no love triangle or technology 
•Enemies to lovers but not quite 
•Friends to lovers but not quite
•Silent revolution 
•Bring down the patriarchy 
•Really strong and badass main character 
• amazing plot twist
• every woman has an amazing power within themselves 
• beautiful family bond
• low-key lgbtqia+ representative (with phobia so beware) 
• so well written 
• really empowering 
• Almost none named male characters 
• “trust no one, not even yourself”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexism, Vomit, Violence, Torture, and Suicide

Moderate: Body shaming

Minor: Alcohol, Trafficking, Suicide attempt, Stalking, Self harm, Religious bigotry, Outing, Lesbophobia, Infertility, Grief, Gaslighting, and Forced institutionalization

sophie42's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cannibalism, Confinement, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Violence, Murder, and Excrement

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Homophobia, Vomit, Sexual content, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Rape, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, and Animal death

Minor: Infertility and Outing