Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

20 reviews

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

4.75

The audiobook is a fantastic version of the story. I would argue it is the best way to experience the story.  You will find yourself rooting for the main character throughout all the trials and periods of growth. The beauty and pain of remembering beginnings, endings, tragedies, and love are intertwined as surely as the water around their people. Remembering is painful and a lot to shoulder alone. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Death, Death of parent, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

literaryliaisons's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense slow-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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal death, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Genocide, Colonisation, Violence, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, and Death

Moderate: Slavery

tinyjude's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-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

This novella reframes and provides a fantastical interpretation of what happened to the unborn babies of African women as they were forcefully taken from their homes in slave ships to exploit them. This atrocious moment in history is reimagined in such a lyrical and poetic way, while also being nonetheless extremely critical with white supremacy and the exploitation of black people. The combination of both aspects and the influence of African culture, create an emotional tale which maintains a special rhythm and conection with nature, especifically the sea and its power, that touches the reader deeply. The story focuses on history, but also love, community, shared generational grief, loneliness, hatred... A masterpiece.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Murder, Racism, Colonisation, Death, Suicide attempt, Trafficking, Grief, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Child death, Cannibalism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Blood

elenamarmiroli's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

2.75

L'idea di base è interessante, ma l'inizio dell'opera non mi ha preso per nulla. Completamente buttata all'interno di questo mondo, senza alcuna spiegazione,  stile troppo lirico per i miei gusti, questo libro mi stava piacendo così poco che ho valutato seriamente di mettere giù per sempre questo mini volume, cosa che non mi capita quasi mai.

Fortunatamente dopo il prima 40% l'opera comincia a diventare più chiara e mi sono un po' abituata allo stile e verso il finale dell'opera mi è piaciuto. Ciò però non compensa l'inizio, soprattutto in un libro così breve.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Suicide and Suicide attempt

samara's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Genocide, Grief, Racism, Self harm, Slavery, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: War and Vomit

marionberry's review

adventurous challenging dark hopeful reflective 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

4.25

I really enjoyed this novella. Rivers Solomon writes in such an immersive way that I found this novella to give me both space to process the importance of the story while also being deeply engaged in the world that had been created.
 I wanted more of Basha's story and history - some of me wished that time had been a more central component. But, alas, I think we were only given snippets for good reason. 
This is definitely  heavy story that asks the reader to reflect and question the way in which they think about history. Very glad to have read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Suicide, and Racism

melodyseestrees's review

emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Death, and Suicide

Moderate: Blood, Gore, and Grief

story_goblin's review

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

This is not a book I know how to review. It's so unique in both content and concept that I have no idea how to talk about it to someone who hasn't read it. I was fascinated the entire time. The audiobook (read by Daveed Diggs) was fantastic. I have also read Rivers Solomon's book An Unkindness of Ghosts. I would say that this book is a less... difficult? somewhat easier to stomach?... than An Unkindness of Ghosts, but is equally unflinching in it's treatment of heavy topics.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Self harm

nikkiblack17's review

adventurous hopeful reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Slavery and Violence

gwen_c's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery

Moderate: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts