Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Glitterland by Alexis Hall

70 reviews

pawtory's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

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

4.0

I honestly don't know how I feel about this book? It was good but also manic pixie dream boy vs mental illness.  The mental illness isn't handwaved or anything but I'm not sure if it was realistically portrayed in the context of the relationship either. Idk, hard to pin down what I'm trying to say and I'm sorry for that

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, and Ableism

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

Please don't take my warnings as comprehensive gospel I probably missed some and may have miscatrgorized too.

lauralia's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, and Self harm

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Homophobia, Fatphobia, and Drug use

zarahzoe's review against another edition

1.75

Fatshaming as a cutesy bonding moment and a protagonist who never manages to get over his classis  views. Also I couldn't get over how easily Ash was forgiven for his hurtful, atrocious actions. I know this is supposed to be a HFN (with possibilities for a HEA) but I just don't see the possibilities. 
Alexis tends to be quite hit or miss for me, but the hits hit so high that I sometimes have to endure the misses, but... Uhm. Was this ever a miss.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Classism, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Outing, Toxic friendship, and Self harm

Minor: Fatphobia

djm_chal's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Mental illness

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

adricheyenne's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Mental illness, and Suicide

Moderate: Drug abuse

Minor: Homophobia

adrienanthony's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad 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: Self harm, Alcohol, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Ableism, Classism, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Grief, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Body shaming, Cursing, and Biphobia

alyciajstewart's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad 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

4.75

I have, thankfully, never struggled with severe mental illness. Alexis was able to write a character that was real enough for me to build an emotional connection with despite not being able to fully relate. Ash clearly had a lot of flaws, and a lot of emotional baggage that he had to deal with during the course of the novel. It was amazing to watch Darien's influence on his self-esteem. I loved watching their relationship grow and

although it eventually hit a rough patch, they were able to work through it with the mutual understanding that no one is perfect.

I enjoyed that all of the characters had real and genuine feeling flaws while also being redeemable enough that I felt good rooting for them. This was definitely a character focused book, and the plot line was secondary to the emotions the character's experienced. Overall, it was an incredibly challenging book to read due to the serious nature of the topics, mental health specifically, that are discussed but I felt it was incredibly well done and the author was able to convey a great story without exploiting mental illness as a trope.

I did have to deduct one quarter of a point for the Essex characters speech. It was a bit hard to read his dialogue and it pulled me out of the story a little every time I had to read his words. I wish it had either just been made clear that he had an Essex dialect without adding it to his dialogue or had ben cleaned up a little more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Suicide attempt

esalmon13's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Toxic friendship

emrosenq's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Mental illness

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Drug use, Self harm, Alcohol, and Fatphobia

Minor: Biphobia

balletbookworm's review against another edition

challenging dark funny hopeful fast-paced

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

5.0

So, last year, AJH got the rights back to Glitterland - should it be re-recorded? re-recorded along with the extra bits in the new Sourcebook edition?

And so Alexis had it re-recorded, along with the extra bits, by the original, very, very talented and lovely actor who did the first recording, Nicholas Boulton. Who so perfectly nails Ash's elitism and vulnerability but also Darian's very Essex-ness. I kind of can't really tell the difference between the two performances, my ear isn't quite that good, but the performance is wonderful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

The first person POV character (Ash) does describe in detail his bipolar disorder, what it feels like, the depression, the mania, the anxiety, and relates the history of his suicide attempt many years prior, as well as the description of his scars.