Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi

36 reviews

ba1l3y's review

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

eelizabith's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Suicide

eprimo's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

This book is beautifully written, thought provoking, emotionally challenging- but in a good way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

mollief's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Sexual assault

lifewithjoce's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Transphobia

dc32's review

challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

note to self to remember chapters: worldbending, desire, holy, anointing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Transphobia, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

karingforbooks's review

informative slow-paced

2.5

I’m sure this resonates for others, but it’s not for me. Not least because the extensive discussion of suicide and self harm was triggering for me, so go into this having read content and trigger warnings. 
Otherwise I can’t tell if it’s just that I’m uncomfortable with someone being so confident or if I genuinely think they’re delusional in a harmless way. But none of it hit with me and I didn’t enjoy the writing style either. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Self harm, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Chronic illness, Grief, Death, Dysphoria, Blood, and Medical content

Minor: Blood, Car accident, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Chronic illness, Infertility, Sexual harassment, and Body horror

alexchig's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

I can't give this an accurate star rating so I will just explain my thoughts. Ever since I read Vivek and Freshwater I have been enthralled with Akwaeke's writing, but I didn't know much about them as a person. Naturally, I was excited to read the memoir of someone as fascinating as them. It completely exceeded my expectations as it actually challenged some preconceptions that I didn't know I had. The memoir starts off with Emezi identifying themselves as an African ogbanje spirit, a God-like rather than human being. I immediately tried to rationalise what I had read; "you mean metaphorically right?". I had read Freshwater with the assumption that the ogbanje was a metaphor, but Akwaeke specifically calls out people for believing that (oops!). I think that as Westerners many of us (myself included) want things to be palatable, in sync with our own realities, simplified even. Akwaeke wants us to just accept indigenous realities the way that they are. Reading this has pushed me to explore my own prejudices more than anything else. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

maaaans's review

dark reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Suicide

mscalls's review

challenging dark informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.5

Powerful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Transphobia, Body horror, Grief, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Child abuse, Death, Infidelity, Chronic illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Self harm, and Sexual content