Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden

27 reviews

keeganrb's review against another edition

emotional 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Grief, and Suicide

leabhar_love's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Violence, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Kidnapping and Alcoholism

Minor: Car accident

thalianni's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Physical abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Slavery, War, Suicide, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Violence, and Terminal illness

amberlen's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.25

This is a very good book that was tough for me to read.
I cried a lot. Like, every other page. The kind of crying that is good and cathartic, though.
Despite the heavy topics this book deals with, it managed not to slip into hopelessness and despair but found a good balance between devastating and life-affirming. 
The story leans more toward philosophical musings about life and death without too much plot but that did not bother me. (Although I found some of Mrs Death's chapters to contain a tad too much monolguing.)
In the subject matter and the way it was approached, this story reminded me a lot of Neil Gaiman's writings, especially the disclaimer in the beginning. 

Lastly, I absolutely loved the blank pages at the end, where you can write the name of loved ones or other people who've died but you want to remember. That's just such a good idea. I was quite bummed that I read this as an ebook. Learn form my mistakes and buy the physical copy, if you can.

In short, read this, if you want to be repeatedly punched in the gut emotionally.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Suicide

sws_1319's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This book is unlike anything I’ve read. The book is more speculative, being more a compilation of different types of prose rather than just a normal story with chapters. Although underneath all the different thoughts and feelings, there is a baseline story, I don’t think that’s really the point of the book. The subject is more the feelings and thoughts surrounding death and the passing of people around us, and the changes and affects that has on us. 

altogether it was an interesting and unique read. I did find some of the book a little tedious and hard to get through, but overall the book was interesting. Enjoyed reading it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicide

the tags have all been tagged in the explicit section. Although none are described in masses of detail, some of them did make me feel uncomfortable and they are themes that run throughout the book. The narrator, Wolf, struggles with mental health issues due to his past which relates to a lot of these tags. I would advise to read with caution, even though some of it isn’t explicit it is obviously hinted at and talked about

barbz's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Suicide

rieviolet's review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

This book is certainly quite peculiar in terms of narrative form and also of point of view (the chapters from the perspective of a desk, I mean what was that?!). 
I think that when it worked for me, it worked really really well and I was left really impressed by the writing style and the profound and poignant exploration of a certain topic. However, when it didn't work, it really really didn't work for me and I just felt very confused and like the narrative style had been overdone a bit too much. 
Also, some sections where the character of Death was talking sounded to me too much like an essay, maybe too much "telling, and not showing", not very subtly handled. 

At times it felt a bit overly graphic (the list of content warnings is so long that, honestly, it'd be easier to say what is not included) and I'm not sure if it was really necessary for the story. So many examples of very brutal crimes are included and the section with example after example of different types of deaths is quite taxing to get through.

I think it was a bit of a mixed bag for me but I'm still glad to have tried something a bit out of of my literary comfort zone. 

You grow and
become who you are 
you grow into your shape
I could have been anything
but this was the shape the world 
carved into me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Murder, Violence, Sexual violence, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Domestic abuse, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Blood, Suicide, Mental illness, Grief, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual content, Slavery, Physical abuse, Cursing, Cannibalism, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Alcoholism, Forced institutionalization, and Racism

Minor: Vomit, Excrement, War, Torture, Fatphobia, Trafficking, Transphobia, and Addiction

funktious's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.5

If you ever wonder whether you’re a bit morbid because you think about death, then you should read this. As much poetry as fiction and more of a miscellany than a straightforward novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Domestic abuse, Grief, and Misogyny

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

whatellisreadnext's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

I absolutely loved this. What a unique little book. If you find death as fascinating as I do, you definitely need to read this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Death of parent, and Suicide

lyndseygemm's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts