Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

3 reviews

maria_elizabeth_harden_pope's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

2.75

I think there's really too much going on in this book. The meditations on women, on new life, on pregnancy, on the divine are really beautiful, and I appreciate the main character and her perspective a bunch. But the plot well.... it's hard to follow... there's maybe not quite enough exposition about the world (which is maybe intentional- but it could have been executed better)... and a lot of plot points feel sort of out of the blue/ not well-incorporated. I also think that the way that the main character's indigenous identity was explored felt like an afterthought. It could have been more integral to the book or not done at all.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Trafficking, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, and Forced institutionalization

becksusername's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? No

5.0

Wow this did not have a happy ending. At all. I really wanted it to. This book was so good and had such an original premise, I was definitely hooked immediately and tore through it.

Re-Read: Holy fucking shit I love this book. The ending fucked me up all over again, but in a different way because I knew what was coming.

the part at the end where she describes the end of winter in Minnesota had me on the brink of tears. We don't know it's heaven. Fuck. And of course the whole premise is so much creepier given the current state of women's bodily autonomy in the US. Fuuuuuck

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Confinement, Outing, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Murder and Kidnapping

Minor: Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Gun violence, and Infertility

alldebstinations's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Infertility, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Infertility, Kidnapping, and Miscarriage

Minor: Blood, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Infertility, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Medical content, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Torture, Trafficking, and Violence