Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

2 reviews

words_and_pages's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Misogyny, Torture, Sexism, Suicide, and Gun violence

Minor: Fatphobia

aylajn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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? No

4.75

Either this book was not predictable at all or I was so engrossed that I wasn’t trying to figure out what was coming. Either way, it was so compelling and creative.

The only reason I won’t give this a full 5 stars is that the level of pure evil from the villains in this story simply did not fit with the tone of the rest of the book. Those scenes, though very short in relation to the rest of the story, were overly disturbing in comparison with the whimsy, adventure, friendship, and beauty of the rest of the story.

Major spoiler below:

I will say the very last scene with The Woman where she essentially soaks up all of Hugo’s pain filled in that last gap and made sense of the evil. But that made me so sad for that little girl who became The Woman, and I wished that there was a way that she could have been saved from her pain the way that Hugo was. She became who she was unknowingly because of him, and I wish she could have been redeemed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Self harm, Suicide, Racism, Racial slurs, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, and Blood