Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Mad Honey by Jennifer Finney Boylan, Jodi Picoult

403 reviews

gabriellegoldenhour's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious sad slow-paced

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

2.0

I’m truly bummed the inevitable path this book took and how I didn’t find out until 424 pages in. I also could not stand Olivia’s/or her voice’s chapters most of the time, but found out that those were Jodi Picoult’s chapters- so maybe I just don’t like that author’s voice? I did however love Lily and reading her story. I look forward to reading more by Jennifer Finney Boylan. Beautiful acknowledgments and dedications. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Outing, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Suicide, and Self harm

irisandfoxglove's review

dark emotional informative 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

5.0

This was a beautiful, heart wrenching book. I thought the way the chapters were set up was so well thought out and poignant, especially with the epigraph at the beginning. I’d recommend people check the content warnings first before reading.

I loved the moments we got of Ava.

Her planning and forethought for the picnic wrecked me, it was so sweet.

For what we found out about the “day of” by the end of the book,

man, fucking Maya. Based on her telling, it was clearly an accident. Why didn’t she call 911? Or come clean? If I was Asher, I would never forgive her for that. But, I accept her actions as believable. And I’m glad we got to know what happened. I also so fell for Dirk as a red herring.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Suicide attempt, Transphobia, Bullying, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Deadnaming, Death, Emotional abuse, and Violence

Minor: Sexual harassment

The transphobia is not endorsed by the main characters of this book and is thoroughly dismantled. The suicidal attempt describes the method factually, and the emotions graphically, but only describes the set up in detail and not the actual attempt.

the method involved blades, and the character describes several times being triggered by knives and blades elsewhere in the story

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shinabery06's review

emotional slow-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Transphobia, and Domestic abuse

amandalachelle's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Grief, Cursing, Child death, Death, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Outing, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Sexism, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Transphobia

Moderate: Hate crime

Minor: Mass/school shootings

claudiamb's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Domestic abuse

vldestefano's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, and Transphobia

adilyn's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Suicide attempt, Murder, Hate crime, Domestic abuse, and Self harm

alex_bousquet's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-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

3.25

Lilly needed some therapy before just getting surgery. She needed to be honest with everyone around her about who she truly is. Asher needs to get his anger in control before he actually does hurt someone like his father. Did get a bit too preachy and controversial as the story went on 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Outing, Self harm, Body shaming, Bullying, Transphobia, Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

bendercath's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad 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

4.25

This whole review will be a spoiler.

Wow. This book blew me away and has me not being able to stop thinking about it. I could not stop listening (audio book was excellent, btw!) and it kind of took over my days. I love when that happens … especially after being in a bit of a reading slump. I did not know anything about this book. I also love that. The moment when the coroner announced that Lilly was transgendered was a complete shock to me. It was surprising and was done so very well.  I really appreciated how this was handled and how I learned a lot … even as an ally to a few trans people, I learned new things and felt that the information seemed accurate and authentic.

The plot twist that Maya killed Lilly was NOT what I expected and I did not love that at all. I kind of hated it, in fact.  I kept waiting for the fathers to be held accountable! I was SURE that Lilly’s father was the murderer and I was so deeply disappointed that he did not come back to be served justice. Also, where was Braden at the end? I was grateful not to see more of him than we already did, but I could not believe that he would have been more involved all along the way.

I enjoyed the references to the bees but at times, it did feel a bit forced and somewhat overdone. And I wanted Olivia and Mike to hook up … but that plot line didn’t get a ton of careful attention.

Truly a well-written book. For the most part, the pacing was masterful. It dragged at a few points during the trial … but then again: that is real.

Thank you to both authors for this impressive work.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Domestic abuse, and Sexual content

kellyfacee's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Transphobia, Suicide attempt, and Murder