Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

26 reviews

katsmedialibrary's review

dark slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Medical content

Moderate: Rape, Suicide attempt, Incest, and Child abuse

selenatothemax's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Eating disorder, Incest, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Rape, Religious bigotry, and Death

graco's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

1.5

The whole thing seemed like a long, drawn-out opportunity for the author to hit us over the head again and again with her views on how backward Catholicism is. The main character (not particularly likable despite the fact that she was supposed to be) took every opportunity to comment on how ridiculous and deluded all the rural Irish characters were because she's a nurse and believes in science despite being a terrible nurse. The mystery about how Anna was getting fed was obvious from the moment it was hinted at and the second twist was just a big nope for me. Almost dnf'd it there but I was curious how the author was going to try to write herself out of the terrible ending she was hurtling toward. Turns out she didn't.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Incest, Rape, and Suicide attempt

darcyjanea's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Child death, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Incest

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

itsbumley's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Child abuse, Suicide, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Pedophilia, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Excrement, Eating disorder, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Medical content

Moderate: Rape

peytonktracy's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

4.0

This is a book I will be chewing over for awhile. We love a good morally gray book full of morally gray characters. This book has been described as a tense psychological thriller and I agree with the first two-thirds, but it’s more like a slow-motion tragedy than a thriller. We spend two weeks in the village where our protagonist has been summoned to stand watch over a girl who supposedly has been surviving four months with no food, but begins to collapse before the reader’s eyes. As the story and motivations of not just this little girl but the people around her begins to unravel, the impending heartbreak makes this a starkly agonizing read. But the ending was deeply unexpected for me, and while maybe a little rushed, also very thoughtful and surprisingly sweet. This book is about belief, in the end: what we choose to believe and why we choose to believe it, and how we can always choose to change. I think that message found me at a good moment, and I’m glad I happened to pick up this read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Medical trauma

Moderate: Sexism and Incest

Minor: Blood, Kidnapping, Child death, and Suicide attempt