Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

142 reviews

syd991's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

Even better than the first, although now I’m sad that I don’t have any more Leigh Bardugo to read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Addiction, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, and Grief

Moderate: Police brutality, Sexual assault, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, and Gun violence

Minor: Vomit and Suicide attempt

jakobmarleymommy's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Toxic friendship, Animal cruelty, Colonisation, Violence, Blood, Classism, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Gore, Animal death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Slavery, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Suicide

addie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Mental illness, Animal death, Murder, Blood, Death, Police brutality, Sexual violence, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide attempt

cfoley's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Physical abuse, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Violence, Sexism, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Suicide attempt, Murder, Police brutality, Sexual content, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Drug use, Drug abuse, Self harm, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Gun violence, and Grief

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, Death, Cursing, Animal cruelty, Addiction, Animal death, Sexual assault, Alcohol, and Abandonment

emeraldrina's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Murder, and Death

Minor: Sexual content, Vomit, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Blood, and Suicide attempt

msradiosilence's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

TLDR; 2 rating, Bardugo somehow included more racist stereotypes, and this is more dark contemporary fantasy than dark academia.
Content warnings at the bottom. :)

Once again, I don’t like authors writing outside of their lane. And not only is Alex a racist stereotype, but also Detective Turner.

Per my last review, there’s been a ton of criticism about Leigh Bardugo, a white person, writing from the perspective of a Latina woman, and now in the sequel she’s written in the perspective of a Black cop. And not only is Det. Turner a Black cop in the wake of everything that has happened between 2019 (when Ninth House was published) and now (read: police shootings [sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_States, https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/]), but he’s

a cop that has murdered his white partner, albeit a racist man.

And it’s incredibly ironic considering Bardugo specifically has a scene where

Det. Turner and Alex use a table to track down a murderer for their ritual and he demands they break the table becuase of its origins to track down escaped slaves DESPITE THE FACT that the police as an institution in America were created to track down escaped slaves [source: https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/origins-modern-day-policing#:~:text=The%20origins%20of%20modern%2Dday,runaway%20slaves%20to%20their%20owners.] but I digress.

Another gripe, this one much smaller after the major dislike reason, is the part

with the rabbit.

My running theory is that Bardugo mentioned the rabbit much earlier than it was in the final draft and moved it around, but no one caught it so it just reads like the reader missed something, when in fact they were never given the information about Babbit Rabbit in the first place to miss.

I don’t think I’m going to waste my time or money on another one of the books in this series. If I desperately need to know how

Alex and gang defeat the big bad vampire demon things,

I’ll google it.

Rating: 2
Would I recommend? No. I refuse to recommend books I disagree with on a morality issue. 

Content warnings: Death, Violence, Murder, Racism, Blood, Vomit, Police Brutality, Animal Death (on page), Drug Abuse, Drug Use, Overdose, Suicide Attempt, Slavery (discussed), Sexual Assault/Rape (from last book, discussed)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Slavery, Violence, Vomit, Police brutality, Racism, Murder, Rape, and Suicide attempt

kristinrdub's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual violence, and Suicide

midnightgarden's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, Blood, Sexual violence, Death, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

plantgal_jill's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Blood

Minor: Torture, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Rape, and Police brutality

katharina90's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.5

I really wasn't invested in the plot. Turner grew on me in this book though. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Death

Minor: Slavery and Suicide attempt