Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

29 reviews

nodogsonthemoon's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

0.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Vomit, and Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Excrement, Islamophobia, Medical content, Racism, Suicide, and War

sarah984's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

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

2.0

There were some things here that had the potential to be interesting - the "guess who’s coming to dinner" scenario with the white people who desperately want to believe they're not racist (or that they don't SEEM racist, these characters are preoccupied with seeming) but resent the class/race divisions not going the way they would expect, the mundane weirdness of living through a disaster, some of the things with the animals. However, the prose is extremely dense, full of short sentences, weird metaphors and unpleasant sexuality, and in the end it just kind of felt like a chore to read it. It also drove me insane that they spent all that time complaining about not knowing anything but refused to listen to the radio.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Vomit

Moderate: Alcohol, Cancer, Confinement, Excrement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Racism

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Islamophobia, Suicide, Terminal illness, and War

There is a scene involving a person’s teeth falling out.

jeannek's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide, Vomit, and Sexual content

nialiversuch's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, and Vomit

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Racism, and Sexual content

Minor: Suicide, Child death, and War

vlntnmz's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

2.0

Why the author put so many sex references in the senteces when there was no ponit for it?
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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, and Vomit

Minor: Cancer, Medical content, Murder, and Suicide

ctrl_shift_dlt's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Vomit

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Racism, and Sexual content

Minor: Suicide, Violence, and Body shaming

sallysimply's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

What a weird, layered, compelling read! I had absolutely zero expectations going into this, and it seems that I missed a lot of the hype. I could not put it down and was mad at myself for starting it at night because it meant that I had to go to sleep halfway through and finish it in the morning.

I love that there's no resolution, I love that everything is still a mystery at the end, I love that this book doesn't fit neatly into a single genre, I love that almost everyone is unlikable in some way cuz that's how humans are, I love that this is a snapshot of humanity when everything falls apart, I love that I learned a bunch of new words.

I will almost certainly be re-reading this at some point.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, and Vomit

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Excrement, Islamophobia, and Suicide

bodiesinbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, and Vomit

Moderate: Cancer, Cursing, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, and Racism

Minor: Suicide

stayathomereader's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Full review on blog
Http://alexreadsandblogs.wordpress.com 

This book was not the dark literary fiction I was expecting… this book is a thriller! I don’t typically read, let alone enjoy, thrillers. While not exactly a fast paced plot, the suspense makes this quite the page turner. And while this book is not really horror, I found it terrifying! Alam did a FANTASTIC job getting the every day, baseline, fear level of parenthood in general down on the page. That sense of fear is then elevated by the position the characters find themselves in. What is scarier than parenthood, but parenthood at the end of the world.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness

Moderate: Suicide