Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Vox by Christina Dalcher

8 reviews

ell_n's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Murder, and War

amberrenfrey's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Violence, Sexual content, Rape, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Murder, Police brutality, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Transphobia, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Cursing, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Slavery, Sexual violence, Gun violence, Death, Abortion, Biphobia, and Domestic abuse

gemma7's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad 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? No

3.75

4 Stars is probably a bit of a stretch but it is what it is.

I was really enjoying the book but the ending was not IT!

Why is everything told and not shown?

Stevens rescue, Del's staged arrest, Poe working undercover, more details on the resistance

These things were important to the story yet we never know how they happen.
Some things were too convenient to be true 

all the right people just happened to be part of the resistance, Lin and Jackie kept trapped in the same building Jean was working in

 

Also, Olivia was at Patrick's funeral? Surely she couldn't have survived what happened to her?? Unless it was her one handed ghost.

 

Still quite impressive for a debut novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexism, Suicide, Medical content, Death, Forced institutionalization, Infertility, and Misogyny

Moderate: Pregnancy and Homophobia

Minor: Abortion, Blood, Self harm, and Sexual content

thndrkat's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Suicide, and Sexism

I found this book to be fast paced, sexy, engaging, and mainly satisfying except for Dalcher’s reliance on stereotypes to characterize the bad guys.

nila's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Torture, Homophobia, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Terminal illness, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Gun violence, Suicide, Transphobia, Slavery, Sexual content, Self harm, Pregnancy, and Murder

Minor: Alcohol and Vomit

dumbbuthyperfixated's review against another edition

dark reflective tense fast-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

3.0

scientific details were interesting, nice world building with the wrist counters. i think the writing made it seem like i didn't know if things were happening or not and that got a bit confusing 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Gun violence and Homophobia

Minor: Torture

myreading_nook's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Suicide and Suicide attempt

btrz7's review

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Misogyny

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Homophobia, Infidelity, Medical content, and Suicide