Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

77 reviews

adisiki's review against another edition

4.0

Loved this! It was so funny and sapphic and the artwork was interesting. I love the storytelling narrative where the narrator acts like the reader is living in the same world and understands references and things and the footnotes were so funny. I’m just still confused on who the narrator is supposed to be, I probably need to reread more to catch what I missed, and it seemed a little long and dragged out at times.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Suicide, Murder, and Sexual harassment

haleysversion's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Classism, Rape, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Hate crime, Child death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, Blood, Grief, Suicide, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, Biphobia, and Outing

whatadoll2014's review

Really wanted to get into this but felt like it was a bit lengthy. I could see myself maybe coming back to this if I’m in a different mood for reading but for now this one will go on the shelf. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Suicide, Death of parent, and Grief

beccaand's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Body horror, Grief, Child death, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Suicide, Lesbophobia, Vomit, Homophobia, Drug use, and Sexual assault

Minor: Pregnancy, Forced institutionalization, and Fatphobia

hchandler1092's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

Was expecting this book to have more descriptive horror aspects and scenes, but it was more of a creepy and morbid undertone with focus on the characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Death

Moderate: Suicide

clarkg's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Reading this book felt like being under a spell. There were so many delicious threads to unravel that I could not stop picking at it until I reached the end. My two main critiques are that 1.) The present-day narrative is noticeably less captivating than the historical narrative and 2.) I feel like there were missed opportunities to subvert established tropes. That said, it avoided being predictable and had some genuinely unsettling moments. Reader, I loved it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Sexual content, Body horror, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide, Pregnancy, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Sexual violence, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Cursing

jillaay_h's review

adventurous dark emotional funny 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Death, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, and Vomit

celery's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Car accident, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Animal death, Cursing, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Blood, Suicide, Violence, Body horror, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Stalking, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Vomit, and Sexual harassment

ferns_citruscorner_8's review

funny mysterious tense slow-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

3.75

I have such a love and hate relationship with this book. I love the writing style and the language, by God, I truly do. I’m also amazed at this book for being my first book with polyamorous characters in it! I’m personally aroace and find it at times very discomforting (a lot of horny-ness), but loved the ending! Sometimes, one of the characters get so fecken annoying and edge-lordy, but I’m glad I decided on reading through. I’d recommend this to people who like long books with hella queerness in it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Violence, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Rape, Suicide attempt, and Fatphobia

rosaa_12's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Sexual violence, and Suicide

Minor: Death