Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

The Night Swim by Megan Goldin

40 reviews

julienicole1106's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Physical abuse, Violence, Alcohol, Car accident, Child abuse, Gun violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Stalking, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Torture

carmnsndiego's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

Moderate: Murder and Suicidal thoughts

milojean_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual harassment, Rape, Sexual assault, Bullying, and Sexual violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

maggies's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Listening to the audiobook was interesting because it included "produced" episodes of the Guilty or Not Guilty podcast produced throughout the story. Not sure that was a good addition to the book, though...I didn't like the podcast and it soured my view of Rachel. The dual crimes years apart trope was executed well enough, with a suitable twist to be enjoyable, but it wasn't the most elegant.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Car accident, Terminal illness, Child abuse, Bullying, Death, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Death of parent, Kidnapping, and Panic attacks/disorders

jkmills2015's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Murder, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

rachelibrarian's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

gloriazthompson's review against another edition

emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Suicidal thoughts

oliviabriscoe's review against another edition

mysterious slow-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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Grief, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Bullying, Sexual content, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

bookmarkedbyal's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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

3.5

⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

TW: rape, murder, sexual assault

Rachel is the host of an incredibly successful true-crime podcast that puts listeners in the jury box. Her upcoming season is surrounding a rape case in a small town involving a star swimmer expected to go to the Olympics. But when Rachel starts getting mysterious letters from Hannah, a woman whose sister died 25 years earlier in that same small town, Rachel begins investigating two cases..because nobody is convinced that Jenny Stills actually drowned, and Rachel is dead set on uncovering her murderer.

This book took me 2 months to read. 😅 Every time I picked it up, I’d read a chapter and not be drawn in and put it back down. I feel like the entire first half was so slow and could’ve been done in a lot less pages. Once i got about half way it picked up and I needed to know how it ended. I will also note this book is very difficult to read. It deals with rape and includes some very graphic scenes. Overall, giving it a 3.5 stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

ksalquida's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Rape

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Car accident, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, and Terminal illness