Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

59 reviews

booksofautumn's review

adventurous challenging emotional sad fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Colonisation, Animal death, Death, and War

the_bees_books's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad fast-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? It's complicated

4.25

An amazing piece of time-travelling scifi, centered around two characters called Red and Blue, that begin as rivals and end as something so much more than that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Suicide, War, and Blood

Moderate: Body horror, Animal death, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Self harm

themiscyra_anna's review

mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Gore, Suicide attempt, War, Violence, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Genocide

addyruth17's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.5

Wow.  This book is unbelievably creative and well-written.  It's the type of thing I'd think I would fly through, but it took longer than expected because the words were so delicious I had to just sit and savor them.  I'm not upset by how disjointed the narrative is, though during the first half I felt a little like I was kept at arm's length, but in the second half I was immersed.  I usually have issues with time travel stories, but I found that this one was simultaneously detailed and vague enough for me to be on board with it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, War, and Grief

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Confinement

reid_reading4's review against another edition

4.0

The writing was amazing, I really enjoy very lyrical writing with lots of imagery and metaphors. 
My main complaints are that at some points it was kind of confusing, like the writing style inhibited the message, but I think that has more to do with my personal comprehension skills rather than the writer's fault. I was also slightly bored in the beginning because it took a while to hook me in. I definitely preferred the letters to the story section of the book, because I am a goofball who lives for banter and romance. My favorite part was probably the middle; I was a little skeptical in the beginning, and slightly lost towards the end. However, I really liked the ending. It was satisfying and made sense in context of the whole story. I also appreciated the fact that there were literally no men, as it should be. If there was like a man version of the Bechdel test, this book would have completely failed. The only male character didn't have a name, and didn't contribute to the story at all except adding to the story of a woman. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Violence

lokes's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, Violence, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Suicide attempt, and Self harm

hazel_georgene's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Body horror, and War

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

amre23's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Genocide, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Grief, War, Death, Murder, Animal death, Body horror, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Medical content, Stalking, Forced institutionalization, Animal cruelty, Gun violence, and Confinement

Minor: Vomit, Colonisation, and Suicide

wilybooklover's review

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious medium-paced

5.0

To be honest, I had no idea what was going on for the first half of this book. The world-building just throws you right into the deep-end and never really explains anything. It was actually kind of fun just figuring things out as the story moved along, almost like a mystery. The prose was so lyrical and poetic. The picture it paints of the scenery, of Blue and Red and their infinite love was just... sublime. 

I love you. I love you. I love you. I'll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You'll never see, but you will know. I'll be all the poets, I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you. 

At heart, this was a breathtaking epistolary love story set in some futuristic time-travelling version of earth. These heroines live out entire lifetimes just to leave each other a single letter. I hesitate to call it a romance, because there isn’t a HEA as such, but the ending is optimistic. 

I was surprised that Red and Blue had such similar writing styles; given how Red was depicted, I expected a much more ascetic style of prose from her. But then we wouldn’t have had some of the gorgeous lines we got in here, so I can’t complain. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Self harm, War, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Animal death, Death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Torture, and Body horror

Minor: Suicide and Rape

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and War

Moderate: Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Stalking, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, Colonisation, Gun violence, Medical content, Murder, Pedophilia, Torture, and Vomit

Minor: Excrement, Toxic relationship, and Sexual content

Not sure how exactly to trigger tag someone kissing their lover's childhood self but that part was weird and I didn't like it.