Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

Las Virgenes Suicidas by Jeffrey Eugenides

76 reviews

lilacfoxes's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Child death, Stalking, Sexual content, Child abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, and Suicide

Moderate: Ableism and Racism

Minor: Pedophilia

dazedl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.0

I like how raw this book feels. Written from the POV of boys who were captivated by the Lisbon's girls hermit life and the following mass suicides, the obsessiveness of the boys do teeters on the creep side, however their introspective reflections on the events add a human touch to a haunting tragedy. The prose is very atmospheric, and if I could only use one word to describe it, 'dense' would perfectly encapsulate the reading experience of this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Stalking, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Sexual content

sharanle0808's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, and Suicide

Moderate: Violence, Misogyny, and Stalking

Minor: Sexual assault and Sexism

pgflanagan9's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Racism, Ableism, and Suicide

Moderate: Sexism

madelinejane's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

4.5

I absolutely loved Eugenides’ beautiful writing style and the perspective from which he told the story. The only reason I couldn’t give a full five stars was at times it felt almost too slow and I got a little bored

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Stalking, and Suicide

rowanamelie's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Confinement, Child death, Child abuse, Medical content, and Stalking

Minor: Self harm, Mental illness, and Sexual content

brougham_is_elite's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

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

3.5

The overuse of beautiful prose becomes laborious and slow. There were interesting ideas explored but it was not always clear what the author was trying to comment on; a lot of the book appears contradictory. It was very vivid and evocative at its best, but quite often came across as pretentious and unfocused, especially in the middle of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Suicide

Moderate: Grief, Stalking, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, and Death

Minor: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, and Mental illness

phantomgecko's review against another edition

challenging 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? Yes

4.0

I thought this book was well written and interesting. But I also didn't love it. 

The question of why these girls killed themselves seems kinda straightforward? They were confined to a house that was actively decaying around them with severely mentally ill parents.

That wasn't really the point though.

The book was a fascinating view into the perspective of boys that idolize and idealize teenage girls.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Confinement, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Stalking

emelayaa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Blood, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Stalking

Moderate: Fatphobia

bealittlebrave's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

2.0

Almost all of my positive associations while reading this stem from my affection for the movie version, and the hope that the creepy narrator will somehow pay off (he did not).

It's saving grace is that it's somewhat brief, but the fact that chapters go on for ages make it feel infinitely longer.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Child abuse, Child death, and Stalking