Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Crossroads by Laurel Hightower

7 reviews

shadyhabanero's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Gore, Body horror, Grief, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, and Car accident

ankita1996's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Self harm, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Death, and Child death

sargasso_c's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

A piercing and essential exploration of maternal grief.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Self harm, Death of parent, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Body horror, Gore, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Vomit

llyrian's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-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

2.5

It's one of these books I'll probably have to re-read when I become a parent, but I just didn't get it.
Maybe this sub-genre of horror isn't made for me, grief horror.

CW's: Spoilerbody horror, child death (before the events of the book but it gets described pretty graphically), suicide-planning, toxic parents and parenting 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Body horror, and Suicide attempt

himmelstrand's review

dark emotional mysterious sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Self harm

madarauchiha's review

challenging dark mysterious 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

3.0

✨🌠 my about / byf / CW info carrd: uchiha-madara 🌠✨

Weird and creepy story about grief. Well written, interesting, the supernatural portion wasn't goofy and I appreciate that it didn't go fully scooby doo. I thought it handled the heavy subject matter fairly well. 

It's an incredibly white book. Zero diversity. Which like I'm not exactly demanding because useless authors shoehorning useless sidekicks of color or black sidekicks to white main characters is the LAST thing I want to read.



major suicide, suicide ideation, gore, injuries, blood, self harm, death, grief, alcohol, 

medium medical content, infertility, pregnancy, car accidents, 

minor sexual content, alcohol, 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Grief, Alcohol, Death, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: Medical content, Pregnancy, Infertility, Car accident, and Sexual content

Minor: Sexual content and Alcohol

leahrosereads's review

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.25

First and fair warning, I would definitely look at the trigger warnings for this one.  Here are the main ones I noted: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, self harm, child death.  

My eyes didn't stay dry for long while reading this book. Chris's pain of losing her son is so palpable.  And so is her love for him.  This is a fantastic, horrifying novella.  The writing is excellent, and the story instantly sucked me in.  I couldn't stop reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Child death, Death, Gore, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Self harm