Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Looking for Alaska by John Green

109 reviews

chloevienna's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

pretty good! haven’t read a john green book since i was like 12 - fun to dive back in! i think a bit of the commentary in this has aged poorly, but the effort is there. i like the slice-of-life feel this had, and it was a fun and quick read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Car accident, Death, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual content, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Vomit and Racism

cornustella's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

I HATE the way Alaska's written, hate hate hate. Anyway, it kind of reminded me to The Secret History but like 10x worse. Don't really know what to think about it. Takumi is cool 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Car accident, Child death, Death, Drug use, Grief, and Sexual content

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

zoonewrevues's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad 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

5.0

Though this book is far from perfect, it came to me in an important time in my life. It formed me, gave me hope, and showed there are books out there that I can relate to.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Alcohol, Mental illness, and Toxic friendship

nina_iv's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

3.75

I like the vibes even though it is diff from what i have ever read 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Car accident, Cursing, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual content

beeherondale21's review against another edition

emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Car accident, Alcohol, Vomit, Death of parent, and Sexual content

romanysky's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Alcohol, Cursing, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Death, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

ruby_gordon's review against another edition

dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Car accident, Child death, Cursing, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

trycerabel's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Car accident, Drug abuse, and Drug use

abbie_lever's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-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? No

4.25

This book used to be my favourite as a teenager, it’s a romance but it has so many layers. I would say it is quite sad and made me cry a few times but in a beautiful way. The main character is very likeable and you do really feel for him and his emotions throughout the book. I love this book and have read it many times, it’s a book you wish there was a part 2 of. This book is also very young friendly as it isn’t overly sexual or explicit. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Death, and Car accident

cassnbooks's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.5

re-reading this as an adult, it’s very easy to say that it was meant for the young teenage version of myself. good book overall, with an important message. john green really likes to write unreliable narrators, which makes for a interesting dynamic between the reader and the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Car accident, Death of parent, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Death, and Panic attacks/disorders