Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Leech by Hiron Ennes

43 reviews

aerolich's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, Gore, Medical content, Rape, Body horror, Child abuse, Medical trauma, and Miscarriage

bethmalena's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense slow-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

3.5

Horror isn’t usually my thing, but gotta support my queer sci-fi-adjacent authors! In its best moments it reminded me of Ancillary Justice. I liked the futuristic French language elements, but couldn’t quite seem to get my head around a world with a hive-mind doctor complex and mechanical hearts but otherwise only very outdated technology. I found the end a bit drawn out too long and anticlimactic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Medical trauma

Moderate: Suicide, Rape, Miscarriage, Gun violence, and Body horror

pagesandplanets's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Medical content

Moderate: Pregnancy, Blood, Miscarriage, Murder, and Suicide

Minor: Child death and Alcohol

apiecalypsejen's review against another edition

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Chronic illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Sexual assault, Rape, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse

Minor: Grief, Self harm, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Violence, Suicide, Miscarriage, Child death, Animal death, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Pregnancy, Murder, and Abandonment

readmeup's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, and Medical content

Moderate: Grief, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Violence, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Infertility, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Terminal illness

Minor: Suicide and Vomit

dannilmp's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense 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

3.75

For a debut novel by Ennes, I was very impressed at the writing! How can one author make me feel so much compassion for a parasite compared to the human race? This book gave me The Haunting on Hill House vibes at time. Isolated from the rest of the world in a chateux, our doctor has to figure out what is trying to compete against his kind completely on his own. Can he figure it out in time while the chateux crumbles around him?

The setting of this novel really added to the atmosphere, while this book does have its many many scences involving blood and gore, it is the ambience that really shines through. The characters seem to grow and devlop as we learn some of their more darker secrets of their pasts. Again I am blown away that here I was feeling so much sympathy and even rooting for the parasites of Inultus over the humans at one point!

However, I feel the ending wasn't quite as upto par with the rest of the story and the ending left me feeling quite unsatisfied. I don't think the last question in the blurb is answered and given the information we get throughout the story, it's not quite simple to come up with your own conclusions as they really are just wild speculation. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Child death, and Gore

Moderate: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Suicide

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, and Abandonment

chemicallykat's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Violence, Gore, Body horror, and Suicide

sphinxofblackquartz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Medical content, Body horror, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, Infertility, Miscarriage, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Chronic illness and Alcohol

annir's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Classism, Medical content, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Alcohol, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Alcoholism, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Self harm, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Infertility, Infidelity, and Sexual violence

catwhisperer's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Blood, Body horror, Colonisation, Gun violence, Transphobia, Death, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicide, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Medical content, and Self harm