Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Solitaire by Alice Oseman

549 reviews

cookie_lover's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Mental illness

Moderate: Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Stalking, and Homophobia

Minor: Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Drug use, Sexual harassment, and Vomit

ttlymental's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

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

4.5

I have found that I love Alice Osemans books. In Solitaire I quickly fell in love with Tori and Michael. Tori is fighting her undiagnosed depression as she feels undeserving of other people worrying about her, while her younger brother made a suicide attempt last Oktober. She also feels like her mother doesn'  like her. But that's okay since she doesn't particularly like her mother either. Her father though is the character who really got me angry and despairing as he actually takes the time to ask about her and then leaves when it becomes obvious that she can't find the words or the nerve or anything to explain herself. He just leaves her alone, huffing, puffing and sighing like his only daughter is a problem in his life, just there to annoy or test him.
Michael on the other hand got this really interesting personality where he just throws himself into her life because he finds her interesting. At the same time, you just don't get to learn much about him because he also seems to fight with stating his own wants and needs. He also got anger issues which could also be undiagnosed IED from his outbursts for all anybody knows.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Bullying, and Mental illness

Moderate: Suicide attempt and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Homophobia

oliviagarby's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Self harm, Eating disorder, and Suicide

charlie_1313's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious relaxing sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Homophobia, Eating disorder, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Idk

nathaliereading's review against another edition

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Mental illness, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Violence, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Self harm, and Toxic friendship

fernash's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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? Yes

4.75

 4.75 because

they kissed

5 stars otherwise

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide attempt, Violence, Bullying, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Blood

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Misogyny

ollieez's review against another edition

emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Eating disorder, Toxic friendship, Fire/Fire injury, Self harm, and Homophobia

Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, and Eating disorder

beezee01's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective sad tense fast-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? Yes

4.75

This book was amazing. It took me awhile to read it from school and other life but I would 1000% read it again in a binge read. I relate and don’t to Tori. I resonated with a lot of things she said but in some ways didn’t. As a high schooler my self the setting and thoughts was very telling and relatable. This is an amazing book. I also read Catcher in the Rye this year and it says that it’s the ‘digital version’ in the information panel and so I was drawn as I had recently read that. Definitely love this one a lot more.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

lilawsahar's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

I really relate to Tori. I felt the same way in high school / college. I’m sad that her parents didn’t realize she needs help. I’m sad that she had to suffer alone. I’m glad she had one true friend that wanted to help even though she kept pushing him away. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Self harm, and Eating disorder

missemmacrabtree's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

This was a great book for what it was. It was difficult for me to read because my former self related so heavily to a lot of the dark thoughts and negative self image. (Not that I’m perfectly healthy now, but certainly not as bad as I used to be.) This book should definitely come with trigger warnings, but it is nice to read about someone else feeling similar things and somehow still getting through it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Self harm, and Suicide

Moderate: Bullying, Alcohol, Drug use, and Homophobia