Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

30 reviews

fallandfox's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Death of parent, Death, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Abortion

larabezzina's review

dark mysterious tense 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, Violence, Body horror, Death of parent, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Acephobia/Arophobia, Animal death, Bullying, Cursing, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Alcohol and Vomit

blurrycat's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Acephobia/Arophobia, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

turtlebrainlibrarian's review

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Acephobia/Arophobia, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, and Suicidal thoughts

charlieeee's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Acephobia/Arophobia, Death, Child death, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Animal death

Minor: Alcoholism

akthackray's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

4.5

Good ace rep, but very much not about that more about the mystery and adventure (which I like!), not aro

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Animal death

Moderate: Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Acephobia/Arophobia

Minor: Rape, Car accident, and Child abuse

slove's review

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Suicidal thoughts

marieketron's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

A pretty average read compared to weird (monster) mysteries I read last year. The inclusion and diversity elements were really strong, to the point of occasionally feeling like the reader is being mildly lectured, but I appreciated the message that just because someone regrets and repents for their actions doesn't mean you're obliged to forgive them. The monster elements felt relatively tame, and I felt like the plot could have been a lot shorter, but overall a fine read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Animal death, Death, Child death, Gore, Body horror, Blood, Vomit, Sexual violence, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Rape, Bullying, Confinement, Grief, Gun violence, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

Minor: Cursing

emmeline's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.75

The first half is great at building suspense. I especially liked how the supernatural elements were described. The second half not so much, there were quite a few moments that felt info-dumpy and it just stopped feeling like a horror book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

j75's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

Warning: Bad review (also mentioning that some characters get together at the end, not sure if that's a spoiler or not really).
Rating: 3 stars? or more? I dunno really, but 3 felt like a good place to me (for me, three stars=I liked it, so still a positive rating).

-I picked up this book mostly because the author wrote one of my fave books (Some Kind of Happiness) and because I knew there was a sapphic romance.
-This book was legitimately terrifying. Going into the book, I assumed it would be a bit spooky, judging from the excerpt and the cover, but wow was I in for a surprise. The one genre of books I don't really read at all is horror because I just don't like it, and this was horror...oops. I think the reason I actually kinda liked it was because of the romance/friendship aspect, which kept it from being purely creepy paranormal happenings and death and stuff. I'm kind of divided over this book, since while I didn't really enjoy the scary stuff that much (which was a majority of the book), I thought the characters were really interesting. 
-Also, the book contains a very abusive mother, a mother with possible suicidal intent and just a lot of...gore, death and paranormal activity and a weird cult of men so...beware.
-Grayson and Zoe were great, and I liked seeing an asexual character. I also enjoyed Valarie and Marion's relationship, even though I was worried for a while because Val...yeah. Also cool that Marion has a larger body type than the other characters (although it's not really specified besides that). 
-This book scared literally everything out of me and I wouldn't go through the creepy stuff again for a million dollars. 

Fav character: Marion (the real one not the scary demon thing)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, and Torture

Minor: Suicidal thoughts