Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Stay and Fight: A Novel by Madeline ffitch

25 reviews

ceemonkee's review against another edition

emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Suicide

Moderate: Animal death, Mental illness

Minor: Child abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Excrement, Sexual harassment

alsoapples's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

houzzita's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Sexual harassment

cheye13's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This was a wonderful, understated story about making a family and a life with intention. There's nothing exceptional or remarkable about this story, but it's emotional in its simplicity. I enjoyed the writing style and appreciated the depiction of an unconventional family.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Bullying, Misogyny, Racism, Suicide, Grief, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia

Minor: Drug abuse, Gun violence, Sexual content, Excrement, Gaslighting

also note: eco-terrorism, snakes; a large part of the plot involves a child [subjectively] wrongly taken into foster care; a number of tense/dangerous and near-death logging scenes; jail time for trespassing; discovering a suicide; most prejudice warnings are for flippant dialogue, except for a brief scene involving an overtly racist and misogynistic man, dealt with accordingly

ktkeps's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Grief, Lesbophobia, Sexual harassment, Classism

eslsilver's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Suicide, Vomit, Classism

Minor: Homophobia, Forced institutionalization, Sexual harassment

savvylit's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional inspiring 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

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At the heart of Stay and Fight is the perfectly imperfect chosen family of Helen, Karen, Lily, and Perley. Immersing readers in multiple points of view, Ffitch brings each character to vivid life. Stay and Fight is a story about resiliency in the face of obstacles that would break most people. It's about forging one's own path in a community where that sort of thing is uncommon. And it's also about fierce, blazing love. Love for each other, love for the land, love for the possibilities that hard work can bring.

Reading this book, it's obvious that Ffitch drew from her own experience as a homesteader while writing Stay and Fight. She portrays homesteading in an honest way: simultaneously incredibly difficult and deeply fulfilling. I truly appreciate Ffitch's insight and her ability to poke fun at some of the impulses that lead folks like Helen and myself to think that we want to build a homestead from scratch. It won't be easy at all -- but that's part of the appeal.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Suicide, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail

blschuldt's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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So good. Really stressful at times which I don’t normally seek out on purpose, but full of some of the most incredible characters and so surprising all throughout. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Suicide

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Racism, Sexism, Sexual harassment

maceydowns's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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my whole heart is in this book 🧡🐍

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Suicide, Lesbophobia

Moderate: Child abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Grief, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Colonisation

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault

melaniekarin's review against another edition

4.0

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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beautiful story about an unconventional family living on a pipeline

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Suicide, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Classism