Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

22 reviews

kattila's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious relaxing slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Violence, and Alcohol

Minor: Suicide, Death of parent, Death, and Sexual content

unicornialism's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA wish i had more to say but that’s how i feel 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Death of parent

Moderate: Self harm and Suicide

hyithia's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

- illustrative atmosphere 
- strong writing style
- interesting plot in that it is mysterious with a unique concept
- somewhat confusing timeline; was hard to keep track of everyone and everything
- main characters were not well developed; by the end of the book I still felt as if I didn't know them, but maybe that was intentional?
- characters were likable, but not lovable
- especially enjoyed the side stories; those characters were more developed 
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Marco is not very cool to leave Isabelle in a situationship like that, and Celia is for sure not a girl's girl

- pacing was good
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Basil fumbled bruh

- ending actually made sense and resolved things nicely
- clever foreshadowing
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romance came out of no where, but I am a fan of romance. maybe in the late 1800s people just fell in love without really getting to know each other? regardless, them making each other special love letter tents was really cute

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Self harm

Minor: Death of parent

tays_books's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Alcohol, Murder, and Self harm

Moderate: Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Suicide

Minor: Sexual content, Infidelity, and Death of parent

faithss's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Self harm and Suicide

vireogirl's review

challenging inspiring mysterious 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

4.75

A magical, mystical world. I suspect it would make more sense on the second read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, and Child abuse

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Death of parent, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, and Suicide

danajoy's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

This book is all atmosphere. It paints a beautiful, magical world in black, white and splendour.

I just didn't completely buy everything. There was something slightly lacking for me with the characters. The main romance was instalove which I dont really care for and didn't buy into.

I found Marco more unsettling and sinister than I believe I was meant to. I always liked Celia more and when she doubted him frankly, I did too. 
Sidenote though I did really like Bailey and Poppet, they were very sweet together.

It was a bit hard to follow the time jumps while consuming soley as an audiobook. I cared about the characters but not all that much. 

I think this is a book to read for the vibes. The circus itself sounds really fascinating and I do believe it would adapt beautifully to the screen if they have the right team. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Child abuse

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Death

Minor: Suicide

jo_d's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

Absolutely enthralling
The mix of timelines and perspectives was easy to follow, as the characters were distinctly different. The romance wasn't enemies to lovers, but rivals, who respected and turned movers who became better for each other
Poetry in novel form

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Self harm, and Injury/Injury detail

bennoyb's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, and Self harm

faenth's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm and Blood