Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

The Binding by Bridget Collins

230 reviews

benotafraid's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Classism, and Homophobia

Moderate: Pedophilia and Rape

_mineru's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Animal death, and Suicide

Moderate: Rape, Vomit, and Sexual content

aamina's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Animal cruelty, Suicide, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Death, Vomit, Homophobia, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Alcoholism, Blood, Murder, Vomit, Alcohol, Abortion, and Kidnapping

the_first_lines's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Rape, Homophobia, and Animal death

jenn_bookstitcher's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Animal death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, and Animal cruelty

jenjerusha's review against another edition

emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.75

Compulsively readable and extremely tense in spots, but the central third was the point of the story, and the rest is given short shrift. A lot of potentially very interesting / world-building information is elided throughout. A relationship in the first part reminds me a lot of parts of Juniper by Monica Furlong - except The Binding doesn't give it enough attention to have the same impact throughout the story. Expanding that relationship would have given the opportunity to share some longed-for exposition with Emmett and the reader. 

Great, but would have been far better as a much longer novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual content

martharosen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Rape, Death, Homophobia, Sexual content, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, and Sexual assault

Minor: Murder and Addiction

sharlapeggy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Outing, Sexual violence, and Suicide

weiwuxian's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Homophobia

Moderate: Suicide

the rape is not necessarily very detailed but the manner in which it was explained/talked about was one of the most sickening things i've ever read in a book. likewise, there is no majorly detailed homophobia but the actions taken against the lgbt characters once caught were hard to read about

danip97's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad slow-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? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Suicide, Sexual violence, and Violence