Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

The Push by Ashley Audrain

272 reviews

agrismaryy's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, and Suicide

Moderate: Child abuse and Abandonment

krush's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Self harm, Stalking, Grief, Suicide, Child death, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Murder, Death, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, and Child abuse

merbears's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Mental illness, Child abuse, Child death, Grief, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Self harm

Minor: Suicide

pageturningkate28's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Pregnancy, Suicide, Child abuse, and Self harm

mimi_t22's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

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

2.0

I struggled with this, because the characters were not in any sort of way, lovable and relatable to me. I feel like it was written great, like I enjoyed her style but I just hated the story.

it tries to be this psychological thriller and this whole thing but it really just a matter fact that the kid is a psychopath and there’s like mental health issues in this family so like that’s the bottom line for me like it’s not this like great mystery, and great exploration of motherhood. I just  didn’t connect with this & also the husband is a dick!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, and Suicide

missuec's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

4.5

Although dark, I found this book to be manageable. There are some very dark things that happen, but were written about in a way that didn’t make me feel, personally, like I was traversing the difficult emotional landscape with the character. This book had three different timelines for three generations of women, although one generation was focused on the most. I read through this book pretty quickly and never felt as though it was dragging on unnecessarily. The author really kept me guessing and wondering through the whole book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Suicide

risemini's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Death, Violence, Child death, Murder, Infidelity, Grief, Vomit, Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Suicide

pixelited's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.5

This novel was a quick and easy read. How the chapters are formatted make it easy to want to keep going to the next one. The author does an excellent job with setting tense and disturbing tones throughout the novel, while making you question if the narrator is reliable or not.

I enjoyed the uncertainty of whether we could trust the narrator or not. Obviously, we are inclined to see the world through the lens of the narrator, but knowing that the antagonist of the book is a child we think that the narrator then must be unreliable.

That her perspective is truly that of a confused, grief-stricken woman who has lost everything. But, the ending provides clarity and although we have been witnessing everything through the narrator’s perspective, it all seems to be truly confirmed by the ending sentence.

Overall, a great novel that keeps you turning the page and wanting to find out more while keeping an interesting perspective on motherhood and its darker manifestations.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Blood, Child death, Abandonment, Infidelity, Death, Self harm, Suicide, Bullying, and Miscarriage

breanneporter's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This is a hard book to rate; I devoured it, finishing in just over a day, but now that I’ve finished I’m struggling to understand what to take away from it… it follows our narrator, Blythe, as she recounts her experience of motherhood with her daughter, Violet, and her son, Sam, and her tale is interspersed with memories of her own mother as well as her mother’s history with her own mother. It is very dark, so be sure to check content warnings. More than the darkness, it is unsettling. I felt anxious reading it, but was compelled to continue. The pacing is fast, the chapters are short, and it’s very easy to be immersed in the narrative (even as it makes you increasingly uncomfortable).

I kept waiting for evidence of Blythe’s untrustworthiness as a narrator, something to redeem Violet, but I didn’t really get that… and the ending is (horrifyingly) validating to Blythe’s perspective, but there’s no recognition of why only Blythe was seeing this side of her / was the target of her derision for so long…. Idk.

I’m not sure I would recommend or say that it was an enjoyable reading experience but it was certainly an immersive and memorable one!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Child death, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Bullying, Miscarriage, and Suicide

stacylaughs's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Blood, Abandonment, and Body shaming

Moderate: Misogyny, Infidelity, Suicide, Sexism, Child death, Mental illness, Violence, and Physical abuse

Minor: Vomit, Blood, Stalking, and Infertility