Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Recursion by Blake Crouch

179 reviews

menziesreads's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Sets the bar for upping the ante. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child death, Death, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

karenreadsbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Dementia, War, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide attempt

icieri's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Child death, Chronic illness, Dementia, War, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Self harm, Murder, Suicide, Car accident, and Mental illness

saskiahill's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death, Dementia, and Suicide

Moderate: Self harm, Car accident, and Child death

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

spektriva's review against another edition

mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Child death

tungstenmouse's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This highly cinematic novel definitely has highs and lows. It’s a fascinating exploration of the connection between time and memory. For a long time I was completely riveted by this but I hit a wall at the 75% mark. One of the main issues the book has is that set up takes so much time and the repetition (yes, that’s in the title but still) get old fast. I found myself almost forcing the reading through some bits. But the overall story is pretty amazing! It was definitely worth the read and I had a much better opinion by the end of the book. If you like movies and/or thrillers you will love this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Violence, War, Alcohol, Body horror, Child death, Dementia, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, and Suicide

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

zone_a3's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Child death, Chronic illness, Self harm, Suicide, Drug abuse, Death, and Dementia

Minor: Mass/school shootings

arthur_ant18's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Blood, War, Child death, Death, and Car accident

Moderate: Suicide attempt

sabrinahughes's review against another edition

3.0

This sometimes felt like the movie Primer, but also maybe it got bogged down in that time travel trap. Not sure!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Suicide

akhudson's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

A Michael Bay type of read. Fats paced and enjoyable enough. I was expecting something more grounded in plausible science, but also just read a nonfiction book on memory so found much of this as at least one step too far beyond the realm of "someday plausible".

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide and Death