Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Recursion by Blake Crouch

87 reviews

lilyreading's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Suicide attempt, War, and Child death

hgunsch's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Child death, Confinement, Death, Dementia, Suicide attempt, and Stalking

Minor: Stalking, Rape, Domestic abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Mass/school shootings, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pedophilia, and Medical trauma

xosirenox's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Car accident, Child death, Suicide, Medical content, Death, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Dementia, Fire/Fire injury, and Murder

ncm5228's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective fast-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

5.0

If you like the movie Inception, this book is for you!  One of the best I’ve read in a while. At the same time, be aware of the content warnings- it is definitely not a light read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and War

Moderate: Self harm, Child death, Mass/school shootings, Genocide, Violence, Murder, and Medical content

Minor: Dementia, Drug use, and Blood

While lots of horrific things mentioned in the content warnings do occur, it is not the main focus of the book at all, so unless the mention of certain things is especially triggering to you, don’t let the content warnings fully dissuade you from reading the book!

readnicoleread's review against another edition

challenging reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt

hanpear's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.0

this book is fairly dark so i want to give a content warning for self-harm and suicide; as well as

graphic descriptions of atomic warfare.

this book was a very interesting listen. super fast paced, didn’t want to put it down. it brought up a lot of interesting ethics and thought provoking problem solving on the readers end, as you try to piece how it could end together. 
there were only a few things i had problems with. i wish i had felt more convinced by some of the relationships in this story. i also didn’t like that we didn’t get a full description of Helena’s appearance until the very end of the story, it was a small detail but it felt strange to leave it out until then.
Barry is also a cop, which in it of itself is fine, there is plenty of media about law enforcement that i enjoy (b99 anyone?). but it was hard for me to listen to a few moments where he was very comfortable with the idea of just pulling out his gun and using it to fix a situation, or getting out of problems (that aren’t work related) because he can just say “i’m NYPD”. there was just some abuse of power there with him and his job. i personally could have done without those moments.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and War

milliecollin1's review

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Death

Moderate: Gun violence

carolina_has_an_idea's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

I listened to the audiobook. Wow. This story dragged on for a really long time. When everything is revealed I thought “oh I must be getting close to the end.” No. I was only 50% through the book. I keep listening because I needed something to listen to while I was doing chores around the house.

If you watch/read enough time travel fiction you can guess what the solution is pretty easily on. It was a very frustrating listening to them fail over and over again. Just go to the first timeline idiots. That’s always the solution. I also did not understand why Helena had to go back with all the memories alone. Barry could’ve done the same thing and it would’ve saved Helena from having to explain everything to him. I also did not like when Barry was explaining the meaning of life. 50 cent did a better and more concise job in his song “Many Men.”

Too long. I also remember not liking Dark Matter by the same author. Maybe their writing is not for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Car accident, War, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Confinement

moonshinemoxie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.5

I read this basically obsessively over two days. This is similar to the last Crouch book I read, Dark Matter, but this one was much better. Heavy emotional hitter that I will be chewing on for a long time. Very tense ending, the last 100 pages I literally could not stop reading, and it's probably going to take me a while to calm down and sleep. Lots of dark content in this book, and only a little hope. Great concepts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, War, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Mass/school shootings and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Medical content

literary_bug's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

this was by far the most stressful book i have ever read, absolutely mind ending and thrilling but by the end i was relieved to finish it 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Gore, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Mass/school shootings, Self harm, Violence, Body horror, Blood, Death, Police brutality, War, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail