Reviews tagging 'Incest'

Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin

6 reviews

jacquatch's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, and Car accident

Moderate: Drug abuse, Car accident, and Drug use

Minor: Death of parent, Gaslighting, Child death, Incest, and Alcohol

I feel like this book could have been cut by 1/4 and have been much better. And I felt like there was not much that surprised me. I got bored, but I also wanted to finish just to see how the author wrapped it up.

sarah984's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

I was so excited for this book because the memory removal concept holds so much potential, but almost nothing in this book worked for me. The most interesting chapters were Noor's because they explored what working in the clinic was actually like. Most of the characters were disagreeable in uninteresting ways and every time there was suspense it was resolved in the most boring way possible. The ending dragged on way longer than it needed to.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident and Mental illness

Moderate: Death of parent, Drug abuse, Suicide attempt, Ableism, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Suicide

Minor: Abandonment, Addiction, Animal death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Self harm, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Confinement, Incest, Islamophobia, Sexism, Vomit, Child death, and Homophobia

ceciliamirelly's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

If you’ve had a traumatic experience that you carry in your everyday life and had the chance to remove the memory would you?

A book inspired by Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind and Black Mirror, Tell Me an Ending explores the lives of people who’ve had memories removed and are dealing with something called traces and a doctor who suspects something more sinister is happening at the clinic. 

This book was so close to being incredible. The plot and story idea are brilliant, the characters are flawed so they feel real. They have real motivations, fears, complicated family matters, suspicions, jealousies and they are fleshed out.

I adored Noor’s character development and the moral vs. ethical dilemma that the book poses. I also loved how the characters are incredibly separate at the beginning and by the end have intertwined in some form or another.

I’m also very curious for my own sake about what happened to Elena and what she knew about her bosses’ murder.

My biggest issue was the length of the book. Through portions of the book it felt very dense with information which at times can be repetitive. 

Overall, the writing is immersive, detailed and gives the reader a semblance of what each character is feeling. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

Minor: Incest

deezy's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Body horror, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Blood, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Incest, Forced institutionalization, and Stalking

nicoleisalwaysreading's review

emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I could see this one being a fabulous HBO miniseries 👀

I really liked the slow development and revealing of facts like a mystery novel. The different characters and bits of the story we received in each of their sections immediately hooked me. For some reason, some of their memory reveals felt anti-climatic, but I think the theme that different people process memories/moments/events differently and they can have a catastrophic impact on individuals' lives and seem unimportant to others was nuanced and layered.

Character writing was complex and nuanced, and I especially liked seeing how Louise fully crystallized with different perspectives falling into place. I also liked the tiny overlaps as each of the characters encounter one another in different ways.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Medical content, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, and Alcohol

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Incest, and Abandonment

rebekahg876's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Incest, Mental illness, and Addiction