Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

As Musas by Alex Michaelides

39 reviews

madroche's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Suicide, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Rape, Murder, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Death, Blood, and Body horror

beccadamb's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Violence

laurenrayreads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Death

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Suicide

krdavis02's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

anisyrah's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body horror, Death, Stalking, Murder, and Gore

Moderate: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Mental illness, and Gaslighting

Minor: Drug abuse, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Forced institutionalization, and Emotional abuse

abrasieve's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, and Blood

Minor: Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

rocketcityreader's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Oh boy, where to start. I can’t say that I hated it, but I also thought it was ironically pretentious, and just a *little* boring? I rolled my eyes several times over the course of the story, annoyed with both how the young women outside of Mariana’s circle were written as vain and vapid, and at how the men were written as engaging, intelligent, and charismatic. 

Fosca was irritating, which I assume was the point. Mariana, however, was also annoying, and incredibly stupid. And they didn’t feel fleshed out to me—they felt like the author had *tried* to write interesting and believable characters and then heroically missed the mark.

And I hated how every man made a point to talk about how beautiful they all found Mariana, only to be counteracted by her own internal thoughts and disagreements.

Her continued insecurities and naïveté didn’t feel natural. I was surprised when she admitted to another character that she was 36 because she didn’t read that way at all. This was extra bothersome in context—Mariana is a group therapist, and therefore she should be sensible and intuitive. She was neither. However, she was continuously written off as being crazy (another therapist friend of hers suggested she seek help at one point), even though she was trying to present pieces of a puzzle and help solve the murders. So, the men found her beautiful, but quickly dismissed her whenever she wanted to talk.<spoilers>

It was also, irritatingly, predictable.

Though the reveal of the real murderer was a nice surprise twist, I had put enough of the copious red herrings together to know who the murderer wasn’t, and to have guessed a lot of things about the actual murderer that were meant to be alarming.<spoilers>

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual assault, Stalking, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Minor: Infertility, Infidelity, and Pedophilia

CW for grooming.

livvcw's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? No

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Death, Incest, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Stalking

bethgraham1102's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Infidelity, and Animal death

Minor: Drug abuse and Drug use