Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman

11 reviews

frankieclc's review against another edition

2.5

kinda wish I'd listened to the audiobook the whole way through cause this was difficult to read, like the idea, didn't love the execution 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Animal cruelty

quantumponies's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

wemilyebb's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

Minor: Ableism

ella_w_h's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.5

Slower paced that I would have liked. The last 100 pages made up for the book as it is very densely written and initially was quite a slog. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

velvet_young's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

liz4242's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Death, and Animal death

emco_0's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Suicidal thoughts

annerbtw's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.5

Ugh, I'm kinda bummed I didn't like this as much as I thought I would.
The dialogue was super enjoyable, the concept was great... but there is so much detail. TOO much detail. In between the sections of dialogue are 5-10 pages of history (sometimes), which I feel could be summed up into 2-3 paragraphs at most. It made me feel like I was rushing through the history to get to the good parts. I think Ned feels like we need to know more than we ACTUALLY do to understand what he was getting at. Either way, it was okay... I just didn't love the way it was executed. 😟 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Animal death, Suicide, and Cursing

mt_gilley's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

3.5

Funny, scalpel-sharp satire about climate change and extinction. Wonderfully bitter and righteously angry. Surprisingly tender and emotional at times, even if sometimes it doesn't quite get out of the flippant, satirical tone before switching to a more serious section.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

yaoipaddle's review against another edition

challenging funny fast-paced

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

4.75

4.75

I felt it was realistic enough for me to enjoy but still fantastical enough for me to not feel stressed about irl issues. (I already know things are terrible. Go beyond that.) I think the dry humor in the story and characters really helped.

I loved the two leads! Halyard is sooo pathetic it's awesome. And Resaint is so weird I love her.

The world building is interesting but often times it is just dumped on you which made this book take a while for me to finish. It felt like an overload of info at times. This gets easier to manage like 40% in.

The epilogues are great and it sparked my interest in the story much like how Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep did. You really feel like you are being pulled in for the ride and made to think about what you are reading. I'm still kinda thinking about the endings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Cursing, Animal death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Animal cruelty, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, War, Kidnapping, and Xenophobia