Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden

27 reviews

juneorgwen's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

3.5

This book focuses more on prose than anything else. While there is some character and plot development the primary focus is the writing itself. Treat this more as a poetry book than a novel and you'll be okay.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Death, Death of parent, and Gore

Minor: Racism

jenmulholland's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Moderate: Death of parent and Suicide

Minor: Child death

inquisitivevic's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad 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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, and Alcohol

Minor: Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Murder, and Misogyny

itsbumley's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Cursing, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Mental illness, Death, Violence, Sexual violence, Grief, Kidnapping, Racism, and Suicide

Minor: Mass/school shootings

j_squaredd's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Mental illness, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual content

Moderate: Child abuse, Murder, Domestic abuse, Suicide, Slavery, and Sexual assault

kirstym25's review

dark emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Suicide

rcy's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

3.0

A bit scattered but some sweet moments.

“here is the murder hole
here's the dungeon
here's a ghost
yes, I know
but I'm trying to sleep”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

maeverose's review against another edition

Dnfed @ 48%

TL;DR: none of it grabbed my attention, the writing style irritated me, and it’s very depressing. Which is the point but if I’m not getting anything from it why would I put myself through that?

I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this. On one hand I can see why people would like it, but it’s definitely not something that  works for everyone and unfortunately it didn’t work for me.

To start, this book should come with about every content warning you can think of. It’s very dark. If you have a fear of death or struggle with suicidal thoughts I’d skip it, or at least go in prepared. I don’t have a fear of death and this book triggered my anxiety. There are lots of brutal and sad depictions of deaths, a lot of them thrown at you back to back. It’s a lot. Please check content warnings.

At one point there is a mention of jk rowling and harry potter. It wasn’t exactly positive or negative, but there is also a lot of language on motherhood that’s very tied to the ability to biologically reproduce and I saw zero acknowledgment of trans or non binary people, which for me is a bit of a red flag. I know nothing about this author so I’m not making any claims, it just gave me the ick so I wanted to mention it.

I’m not a fan of the writing style, and I feel like this is the type of book where you need to like the writing in order to like the book. It’s purposefully very repetitive and I get annoyed by repetition in books. It’s also very vulgar, which I don’t think is an objective issue I just personally really dislike excessively gross writing and this has a lot of that. There were certain quotes or chapters that I liked, but most of it really didn’t work for me.

Obviously I didn’t finish it but I’m  not completely sure what the point of the book is. Other than a brief message about cherishing your life and accepting death as a part of life, which is a great message, but it doesn’t focus much on that. It jumped around a lot, to different deaths both fictional and I think some real ones, then switches to Death’s pov which is almost fable-like, then Wolf’s pov which focuses a lot on his grief and mental health issues. It switches between lyrical prose and poetry. It felt more concerned with aesthetics than an actual story or message, but being as I didn’t finish it I could be wrong about that.

Really disappointed tbh because I thought I’d love this :/ That’s on me.

I’ll end with two quotes that I did like:
Pg 45 “funny that, funny how we feel like we know things about people we never knew, isn’t it? We are puppets, we are children, without thinking we so often mouth the words our lips are taught.”

Pg 117 “Death counts on Time. Time loves a deadline: a dead line. Time loves some finality; my cold and clean finish. Life believes Time is for Life, that Time is for the Living. Life is most comfortable living in denial and refusing to believe that Time and Death must also have some sort of love for each other.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Suicide, Murder, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence

Moderate: Drug abuse, Alcohol, Racism, Blood, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Excrement, and Vomit

Minor: Car accident, Slavery, War, Misogyny, and Fatphobia

Lots of descriptions of different deaths. Many of which are very violent or disturbing. In certain chapters they list different deaths back to back and it’s very intense.

leanneymu's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

Part poem, part fiction, part memoir, part folklore, this is a really interesting piece of writing. Occasionally, I found the looseness of the narrative a bit difficult to follow - and the continuous repetition made it feel like a written speech, rather than a novel, as such - but overall, I really enjoyed it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Mental illness, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

maybephasing's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Suicide, Murder, Death of parent, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Sexual assault, Child death, Mass/school shootings, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, and Pedophilia