Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix

239 reviews

drewanslee's review

dark emotional funny sad tense 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Gore, Torture, Violence, Vomit, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug use, Gun violence, and Rape

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

thesupermassive's review

dark emotional tense

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Drug use, Eating disorder, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Gun violence and Lesbophobia

cyberhavok's review against another edition

dark funny tense 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: Animal death, Body horror, Eating disorder, Torture, Vomit, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Rape, Kidnapping, and Classism

Minor: Homophobia, Racism, and Alcohol

andrea_lachance's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-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

4.75

StoryGraph just deleted my whole review so I’ll re write it later :( remind me to never raw-dog it on the app again

Might come back and give this book 5 stars…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Eating disorder, Gore, Vomit, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Drug use, Physical abuse, and Classism

Minor: Animal death

tatertotthot's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Eating disorder, Rape, and Suicide attempt

lilpeachh's review

adventurous funny 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? It's complicated

4.0

loved this! reminded me of jennifer's body. it kept my interest the whole time, and had some really good horror scenes. "beds are burning" was the coolest and scariest chapter, it had me squirming and gagging. amazing book for horror fans!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

Minor: Cultural appropriation

it's set in texas in the 80's

dobbyssocks421's review

dark funny 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Cultural appropriation

erinreadstoomuch's review

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

5.0

This hit right in my sweet spot of classique horror, enough manipulation, and a little bit of demonic possession. There are real glimpses into the life they lived of 82’ (and yes I’m referring to the horrific school event day because to pretend that didn’t happen IRL is an insult to the truth of how racist the south is). Either way I’m a huge fan of Grady Hendrix and happy to have read it 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Slavery

calamitydane's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book had me ravenous. I couldn't wait to read the next part as I finished each chapter. The scares were well-written and often had me physically recoiling. I even had to put it down for a good ol' "nope" at one point. I might have to re-read this for my October scares.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

flyoverzoner's review against another edition

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Strange book. I won't get the hours back that I spent reading this. The pacing was weird, and the main character frustrated me. Seems like the author is bad at writing horror, and multidimensional characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Rape, Sexual assault, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Body shaming and Fatphobia

Minor: Child abuse