Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

8 reviews

akane_readsyt's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Violence, Gun violence, Gore, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Transphobia, Racism, Police brutality, Child abuse, Dysphoria, and Body shaming

shaipanda's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This was a solid four star book for me 
I didn’t love the premise as the descriptions were pretty gross and I don’t love reading about pandemics in the middle of 2 lol but overall I enjoyed this
It was super fast paced especially once you got a quarter or halfway through and I got more invested than I expected to 
I’m immediately going to start These Violent Ends but idk if I’m going to read the next ones that come out (and definitely not going to buy them like I did with the duology) as I’m not obsessed and also I don’t love some of the stuff Chloe Gong has done (especially when it came to blurbing and supporting problematic books and then not making any kind of statement or anything about it to apologize in any way 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Xenophobia, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Vomit, Racism, Transphobia, and Blood

Minor: Deadnaming, Suicidal thoughts, and Racial slurs

celine's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

4.5

oh my gods oh my gods oh my gods

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, and Colonisation

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Xenophobia, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, and Racism

Minor: Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Drug use

clarabooksit's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Grief, Sexism, Death of parent, and Racism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, and Homophobia

ye_li's review

adventurous challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

I cannot gush enough about how much I love the writing—it's simply gorgeous. It took a little bit of time to fall in love with the world and its characters, but when I did, I was hooked on them. They are all falling apart at the seams, ready to break when the city does, but I cannot help but be in awe at what a spectacle it would be when they do. There are some aspects of this book that bother me.

For example, Marshall's "death"—I adore him, but I feel like he should've actually died. I also find the whole thing with Dexter Walter being the Larkspur a little abrupt.

But, despite that, I enjoyed it very, very much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Blood, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Transphobia, Homophobia, and Misogyny

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

lady_moon's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.5

10/04/2022: Oh, the right timing do wonders. I devoured it, despite the slow pace.

Oh, and THIS IS HOW YOU WRITE ENEMIES TO LOVERS, TAKE NOTES PEOPLE. And stop fucking recommending RW&RB, that's an offense to the whole trope

Also, I love Benedikt for no reason but his existential crisis, bye


15/09/2021: It's not you baby, it's me being on the edge of reading slump for more than a month and your slow pacing. And all the hype around you...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gore, Gun violence, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexism, Violence, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Drug abuse

Minor: Transphobia and Police brutality

kbairbooks's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This was super confusing for me to read. Because I don’t like horror, politics, THAT level of gore, and apparently bugs in my books. BUT the storytelling was incredible, the romance was subtle but so well crafted, I liked the sister aspect that helped push the story along, I liked the friends aspects of Kathleen and Rosalind and the dynamic between those two sisters, I like Marshall and Benedict and the thing that happened with Marshall at the end and that fucking plot twist my dude?! How can you do that on the very last page!!!! Wild!!! So good. I was certain I wasn’t gonna read book two because of the first few things I mentioned but the story and the characters and the plot twists were just too good. I can’t not read book two. So here I go!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Violence, and War

astralbooks's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Moderate: Transphobia

Minor: Suicidal thoughts