Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

A Study in Charlotte (Charlotte Holmes Novel) by Brittany Cavallaro

9 reviews

bashsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-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

4.0

I... definitely thought that this modern Sherlock Holmes adaptation was sapphic. (In my defense, Jamie is a unisex name!) It took me about 10 pages to realize that it wasn't.

Despite the lack of lesbians, I enjoyed A Study in Charlotte. I think this author has a good handle on what makes anr intriguing mystery, as well as an understanding on how the Holmesesque savant-detective operates. What she doesn't have a great understanding of is the state of Connecticut, which is extremely funny to me as someone who has spent a lot of time there. (Protip: We don't really play rugby over here, not even in the most pretentious tips of New England.)

All-in-all, a solid read. Love the character work especially. Will definitely read the rest of the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Drug use, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Sexual violence, and Rape

Minor: Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Classism, and Suicide

-Explosion/bomb -Surveillence (nonconsensual)

ihugparrish's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Addiction

Moderate: Cursing, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Body horror, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Misogyny, and Self harm

annamary54's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious relaxing sad tense 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

1.75

If this wasn’t a book club book it would’ve been a DNF. The writing made me feel like and English teacher grading papers. Confusing writing/plot line, I still don’t quite understand if Sherlock and Watson are real people or fiction or both?? Or if Sir Arthur Conan Doyle exists in this world??? Narrator Jamie pissed me off from the beginning, just annoying. Not enough Lena content, loved her. Pages like I think 200ish-270ish were entertaining to me, everything else was kinda meh. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Violence, and Suicide

Moderate: Rape, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual assault

lyndsayscan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious 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: Rape, Drug abuse, Suicide, and Self harm

kassidyreads's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault and Rape

Minor: Suicide

epeolatri's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative mysterious tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Death, and Gun violence

Moderate: Sexual assault, Rape, and Violence

Minor: Suicide and Blood

graciejames's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use and Murder

Minor: Rape and Suicide

sarahpoirier's review against another edition

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Suicide

thewitchwhoreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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

3.5

This was over all a really fun read. It was fast paced and and funny. Despite being a YA book the stakes felt sufficiently high, although the characters didn’t much talk or act like 16 year olds….which I didn’t really mind since I’m well out of that demographic anyway, but it was noticeable. The character development kinda went back and forth and left me feeling like neither of the main characters gained a lot of personal growth, but this is part of a series so perhaps I’m being too hard on it there. There was a dash of romance. It didn’t pull focus from the rest of the plot nor did it feel like insta-love. The mystery wasn’t the strongest part in my opinion. It just kinda felt like an average episode of Psych. But it was fun and I will probably read the next book and other things by this author. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Child death, and Drug use

Minor: Suicide, Violence, and Gun violence