Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

La mujer del viajero en el tiempo by Silvia Alemany, Audrey Niffenegger

68 reviews

steffitina's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage

Moderate: Suicide, Violence, and Transphobia

Minor: Addiction

readintherain's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, and Death

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Suicide, Sexual violence, and Pregnancy

mireyadiaz's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

Main problem as a genz reading this was actually the entire plotline with Gomez. I felt it wasn't really needed, at least not at the end like yikes. Other than that not a bad read, but then again I'm a sucker for time travel tropes just for complexities of the thought and possibility of it. Also, like the author is clearly white woman, because any person of a minority most likely would not continuously describe a person's ethnicity or weight whenever they see a new person. But luckily for me my default description of people is Latine like meself 🤓. But yeah... it just depends on your cup of tea. Also, I really found the Catholics kinda funny like in general.(as a catholic🤣) By that I mean there do be crazy ones like that, unless like my family, sin is expected and whatever.🤷🏽‍♀️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Sexism, Violence, Suicide, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Torture, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, and Miscarriage

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Death of parent, Death, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Classism, Dementia, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Incest, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, and Cancer

fjcookie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

this book is everything! love! love! love!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Car accident, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Alcoholism, and Grief

Minor: Homophobia

iloivar's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death of parent, and Suicide

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Gun violence, Miscarriage, and Suicide attempt

mrsshereadsromance's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Suicide

anne152's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Child death, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

ravensalwaysreading's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

2.5

I can finally say that the movie was better, and that's because they left out or altered 75% of what was in the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Vomit, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Car accident, Death of parent, Death, Infidelity, Sexual harassment, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Grief, Suicide, Alcoholism, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Toxic friendship

mergwenthur's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

0.5

This book is problematic in a lot of senses.

First of all, the time travelling doesn't make sense to me, it's always confusing for me anyway. 

It's understood that Henry first met Clare when he was 28 and they were both adults but for Clare, she's known him since she was 6 and Henry was early 40s. 

It was actually quite sad to see that Clare literally spent her whole life surrounded by Henry, waiting for him, loving him, wanting to be with him etc etc.

Atleast Henry was able to live his own life and go down his own routes and paths. Clare was not able to do that. 

It made me uncomfortable for Henry groom Clare in that way. He was attracted to her when she was in her early-mid teens. He quite roughly kissed her when she was 15/16 and then slept with her on her 18th birthday. 

Not only this but other problematic aspects within the book. The way the writer was 'descriptive' also made me uncomfortable. 

What was the need to know the nurse was Black (and it was written in what felt like a passive aggressive way). Or to know 'an Indian doctor called Sue.' 

To the author...erm.... the doc said nothing about their ethnicity but you wrote 'Indian' because you wanted to portray them as brown? Surely South Asian would make more sense. This just made your characters look stereotypical.

Also insensitive sentences about rape which added nothing to what the characters were saying. There are much better ways to say those things.

And the antisemitism ?? Yeah that was also not okay. 

The film did a lot better in regards to being less problematic and harmful but overall, yeah. This book is not good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Death of parent, Suicide, Car accident, Medical content, Grief, Miscarriage, Alcohol, Antisemitism, and Cancer

daysanchez's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Death, Suicide, Ableism, Drug use, and Death of parent