Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

These Ghosts are Family by Maisy Card

7 reviews

thewileyseven's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Murder, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Torture, Racial slurs, Domestic abuse, Death, Child abuse, Blood, Abortion, Colonisation, Drug use, Misogyny, Child death, Abandonment, Drug abuse, Violence, Slavery, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Grief, and Classism

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

cowboylikestoread43's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Sexual assault, Colonisation, Abortion, Racial slurs, Racism, Trafficking, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Death of parent, Sexism, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Slavery, Torture, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, and Classism

internationalreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Child abuse, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Rape, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, and Torture

cozylifewithabby's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

Did I enjoy reading this book? No
Is the writing/the concept incredibly well done? Yes
This story follows so many different characters and explores traumas extending through hundreds of years. It was a hard book to stomach, the characters were disposable, and the plot is nonlinear. 
Would I recommend it? Maybe 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Racial slurs, Slavery, Infidelity, Sexual assault, and Racism

Moderate: Murder, Sexism, Drug abuse, Suicide, Death, Violence, Toxic relationship, War, and Vomit

notkirk's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

2 out of 5 Stars - I wouldn’t necessarily recommend, but I won't caution against reading 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Slavery

Moderate: Abandonment, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Suicide

mikolaszko's review

challenging dark reflective sad tense 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? Yes

4.25

This is a heavy book. I picked it up knowing nothing about it and I was not expecting such a rollercoaster. Finished it quickly because I was in a mental space for that but if you are down or just having a rough time I would reconsider taking up this book. I am white and it still was hard to get through all the violence and just the sheer amount of cruelty, but I think this stuff is important and it sparked my interest in learning more about slavery to better understand not-white-washed history. I already knew some stuff like alligator bait, cannibalism upon black people etc. so I didn't learn anything new per se but definitely, it materialized how truly awful it was and how there were close to 0 people held accountable. Read it, but be prepared to stop and take some time to just think about how fucked up what you read actually was.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Racial slurs, Torture, Violence, Sexual violence, Slavery, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Drug abuse, Colonisation, Body horror, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Vomit

hannahleewhite's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Slavery, Abortion, Addiction, Sexual violence, and Suicide