Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

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

107 reviews

tlindhorst's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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

4.75

This book will reward re-reading, mulling over & reading outside reviews. It is complex, romantic, full of hope & despair all at the same time. Is the conclusion that

we must break away from more collective identities correct

?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Torture, Gore, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Self harm, Blood, Confinement, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide attempt

chris_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious relaxing tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, War, and Death

Moderate: Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Body horror

Minor: Suicide attempt, Torture, Animal death, Confinement, Genocide, and Murder

blumoonie's review

emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective tense 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

4.0

it took me such a goddamn long time to finish this book because I had surgery… I’ll pretend that was it.
 

I was deeply impressed by the end, when I could look back and appreciate all the foreshadowing. The prose, too, was unlike anything I’ve ever read— poetic, leaving plenty of space for the reader to comprehend imagery and plot on their own. this was, unfortunately, the single drawback of this novel… it was a struggle for me to read in my anaesthesia-induced state; I would sit puzzling over single sentences for hours. That said, now that I’ve been able to approach it with a clear head, I can enjoy the style much more. I’d recommend this to anyone who’s into timey-whimey sci-fi topped off with queer romanticism and a sprinkle of mystery. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Gore

Moderate: Suicide attempt and Self harm

augustar14's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Vomit, Suicide attempt, War, and Grief

Minor: Stalking, Murder, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Blood, Gun violence, Genocide, Colonisation, Abandonment, and Death

nortsapa's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad 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? Yes

5.0

i’m just gonna give you the reaction to finishing this book i sent to my friends 

AAAAAAAAUAGHHH
I JUST FINISHED IT
holy shit
holy shit
life changing book
books for the doomed romantic in you
books for the dead lover in you
books for the widow and for the corpse in you

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, and Suicide attempt

emzhay's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense 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

I have just been unmade and remade in the image of this book. Don’t text. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Murder, and Suicide attempt

katilh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-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

3.75

Wish the Sci-Fi part was more,, explained? important?
It seemed so interesting but unfortunately fell short, which made plot points confusing and kind of boring at times. I felt it only got really good as i started to ignore the confusion, but i'd have much prefered some more detail in that sense.

How everything between red and blue got tied together tho was quite nice! I assumed reds presence troughout the story but didn't link it to anything at that point.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, and Body horror

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, War, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

thorns_and_thunder's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-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

4.0

i really enjoyed this book, however, one downside was how vague the world dynamic felt. i know it was written in a more poetic way (which i enjoyed), however, i felt myself waiting for answers that were never explicitly explained. 

this sounds ridiculous but even if the story was kept exactly how it was and there was a little glossary in the back of the book that explained

who/what Garden was, who/what the Agency was, why Red signed up for the war, was Blue truly a princess or was that just the host body she was in when she became sick, and why they were even fighting with a few sentences for each. i would have been fully content with that.

(and please done come for me i know much of it is either left to interpretation or explained in a broad/vague way but for dummies like me a small glossary would help and also not ruin the experience of reading this story). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Suicide attempt

tearoyale's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Suicide attempt, War, Body horror, Blood, Violence, Gore, Murder, and Suicide

Moderate: Confinement and Grief

meaghanelizabook's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Death, Blood, Body horror, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail