Reviews with content warning for Suicide - The Comeback

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karlisimp's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Great Story that follows the me too movement. Enjoyable but with many twists and turns and truly cements a complicated female character. Worth the read and a can’t put down book.

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lollierey's review against another edition

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dark emotional medium-paced

3.0

“I’m just saying, I understand that sometimes the worst part of it all is that you lose control of your own story.”

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ashleereadsbooks692's review

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emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

5.0

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swanous's review

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challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

A really difficult but great story about an actress dealing with the trauma of being sexually assaulted by a mentor throughout her childhood career. The pace of the story matches the narrative, starting slow and all over the place and getting more focused and clearer as it reaches a climax at the end. Of course one book can never cover all of the ways a story like this can play out, but I think it did a really interesting and meaningful job at exploring complicated facets of her relationships with many others, her relationship with herself, and the emotional experience. The description of some of the most difficult emotions was really vivid beautiful and eerily relatable at times.

I also thought there were some interesting ties from the beginning of the book to the end. For example when she was struggling most and in the deepest part of her isolation in the beginning, she talks about waking from her parents to Disneyland every day. Later, as she’s grappling with whether or not pretending everything is okay is going to be enough to get her through, she has a conversation about hating the perfect LA weather because “it’s like living in Disneyland” that I think reflects her budding realization that she is going to have to open up more and do something about the abuse.

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