Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Nobody Is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey

11 reviews

atruthuniversallyacknowledged's review against another edition

dark reflective 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness and Suicide

mediatrikcxs's review

3.5

If you want Death Valley but good this is your book. If you like this book and want better check out Heroes of the Frontier.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide

eveningreverie's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

Beautiful prose mixed with brilliant character work. Truly fleshed out, doesn’t overstay its welcome, and provides a lot of worthwhile commentary on dysfunctional family relationships and the possible emotional effects of suicide on others. Many reviewers have been upset that “nothing happens,” and I can’t help but think they missed the entire story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Suicide

allapaz's review

challenging dark emotional reflective 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

there's a very specific type of stream-of-consciousness, self-doubty traumatized egomaniacal mental illness babble that the author really captures here, and it hits you right in the gut and sticks there like an uneasy tummy ache. and i love it lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Grief, Suicide, and Blood

Moderate: Gaslighting and Sexism

cartridgepink's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Body horror, Car accident, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Deportation, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Medical content, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Vomit, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Trafficking, Transphobia, Deadnaming, Gaslighting, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual assault

Recurrent explicit, detailed descriptions and themes of intrusive thoughts and depersonalisation. Multiple suicides form a core dramatic element of the book. Countless descriptions of viscera, bodily functions, gore etc.

kaiknowshowtoread's review

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide, Grief, and Emotional abuse

waytoomanybooks's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

I read this back-to-back with Everything I Never Told You, and they're incredibly similar, and I have the same issues with both of them. They both ooze "I'm 14, and this is deep." Like yes, there are a lot of gold nuggets of truth and interesting imagery, but it's not really saying anything. The main characters in both novels do a lot of thinking, but that's it. No growth, no change, and no hint that they're even headed in the direction of growth or change. The book has beautiful prose, but it's 100 pages longer than it needs to be, and I should've dumped it instead of finishing it. In fairness though, no one made me power through, and I think the quality of writing is better than the quality of plot and character development.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Abandonment, Suicide, Blood, Child death, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Deportation, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Confinement, Mental illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicide attempt

carocaro69's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

 Little Weirds meets Gone Girl meets Edie Richter is Not Alone (which is a great read if you like this). Sentence after sentence that made me insane, subtle little turns of phrase so effective yet so minimalist that they rarely cross the line into overwrought, observations fresh enough so as not to be cliche but obvious enough that you can’t believe it hadn’t crossed your mind. Just really really good. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism and Suicide

your_true_shelf's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcoholism

kirstyjmacleod's review

reflective sad slow-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Elyria leaves her husband and travels to New Zealand to take up a stranger’s offer of accommodation - a way out of her depression over her sister’s suicide and her failed marriage. But, she and her plans start to unravel. A profound and melancholic portrait of a woman fraying at the seams. Started very strongly, but I did begin to lose patience with Elyria.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide