Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

66 reviews

sinelaborenihil's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy

thequiltyreader's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Predictable and a bit drawn out but OK for a palette cleanser.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment

aleaa's review

4.5

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Kidnapping

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Stalking

Minor: Stalking

chelseap7's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Stalking, Abandonment

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Suicide, Pregnancy

Minor: Death of parent

l00by_loo's review against another edition

3.5

emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Grief

minimicropup's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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This one was so much darker than I expected. If you like flawed characters and emotionally vivid stories exploring fear, sadness, anger, and heartbreak, you might really like this. 

 

Energy: Tension. Dread. Poignancy. 

 

🐕 Howls: I had to skim some scenes because it was so anxiety-inducing (they’re so genuinely horrific my brain doesn’t need any help being paranoid about them!)

kidnapping/confinement + forced pregnancy + evil hiding in plain sight

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🐩 Tail Wags: The writing style. The foreshadowing. Exploring how seemingly innocuous, harmless decisions can lead to tragedy. Characters that are deeply flawed and human. Slow but absorbing pace.

 

Scene: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 London, England

Perspectives (4): We mainly follow the parent of a teen who went missing a decade ago, and the teenager leading up to their disappearance. We also get additional perspectives of a math tutor and the parent’s love interest, who is raising a kid with a striking resemblance to their missing daughter. 

Timeline: Then & Now (2005 & 2015) 

Narrative: Invisible in the room, overhearing thoughts, being told a story. Reader mostly in-the-know compared to characters (first person or third person objective depending on the character). 

Fuel: Finding love after giving up, coping with grief, the circumstances leading to the mystery of the missing daughter. What happened to Ellie? How did the family handle it? W Is her mother seeing what she wants to see in her new relationship? Can she trust her new boyfriend? 

Cred: Realistic to plausible

 

Mood Reading Match-Up:

Old cooking and unwashed hair. Navy blue rucksack. Maths. John Lewis childswear. 

• Punchy, reflective, vivid writing style
• Eccentric, flawed, sympathetic, complicated, and unhinged characters
• Slow burn missing person suspense
• Emotionally vivid psychological drama
• Surreal ripped-from-the-headlines feel
• Can-she-trust-him later in life meetcute
• Simmering resentments and unhinged ‘pick me’
• Obsession, stalking, jealousy, loneliness
• High emotional stakes interpersonal drama
• Monsters hiding in plain sight
• Wrong place, wrong time
• Themes of cruelty, depravity, grief, desperation, forgiveness, healing, adversity, parenthood, and choice
  
  

Content Heads-Up: Animal death (mention; hamsters). Burglary (home). Child neglect. Custodial dispute.  Drugging. Emotional and cognitive issues (childhood). Kidnapping, confinement (room). Loss of child (illness; disappearance). Loss of sibling (as child). Miscarriage (memory). Murder. Parental abandonment. Pregnancy (forced; complications). Psychopathic behaviour. Stalking. Stroke (elderly parent). Suicidal planning, suicide. Torture. Toxic relationship. 

 

Rep: British. Irish British. American British. Cis. Hetero. Freckled, pale, tawny skin tones. 

 

📚 Format: Kindle

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Stalking

Moderate: Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment

Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts

that1girlnstuff's review

2.75

dark mysterious sad tense

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I figured out the main plot point fairly early and as more and more pieces fell into place I had to decide if I wanted to keep going due to some sever discomfort with how the story plays out. I talked with a friend who read it and was able to determine I would finish it. 

If you are searching for Tigger warnings like I was:

non-consensual pregnancy happens with a minor. Does not go into detail but is obvious on what has occurred. Chapter 40 is where it takes place

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy

laurajane78's review

4.0

dark emotional sad medium-paced

Loveable characters: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Kidnapping, Stalking

reading_in_maine's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Kidnapping

Moderate: Violence, Murder

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Death of parent

meangreengurl08's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Mysterious, tragic, and shocking. I've loved all of Jewell's books I've read so far, and this is no exception! Although I have to Google some of the British terms or figure out by context clues, lol...like I had no idea that "squash" meant juice, until it was mentioned later. Not a downside, just a bit of a challenge.

But Noelle...WTF!! She was a terrible, irredeemable person. She had it comin'...that is all. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts