Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North

9 reviews

bayleys's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

Was a great book, hard to wrap my head around sometimes! North is a great story-teller and has some great gems scattered throughout. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Suicide

siprianosonia's review

challenging dark hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Suicide, War, Suicide attempt, Violence, Toxic friendship, Torture, Terminal illness, Drug abuse, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Child death

justdiana's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-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

3.5

Very slow start. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Stalking, Drug use, Murder, Self harm, Torture, Alcoholism, Cancer, Confinement, Mental illness, Violence, Addiction, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Sexual content, Child death, Death of parent, Rape, Suicide, and War

lantheaume's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Toxic friendship, and Death

Moderate: Suicide, Sexual content, Alcohol, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Murder, Drug use, and Mental illness

Minor: Child death

sakisreads's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-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? It's complicated

1.5

I truly wanted to like this book a lot more than I did. The premise of reincarnation and time travel are ones I thoroughly enjoy, so I had high expectations. It was also recommended by friends of a friend; two people with very different tastes in books had said they had enjoyed this one thoroughly. 

So yes. High expectations were there and were not met unfortunately 🥲

Harry August drags on… and on… and on… I really had to pull through the first 50%. It then started picking up a bit and I was hopeful again, before the dragging resumed at 60% 😫
I had to skim through so much of it; it was so unfortunate.

1.5 out of 5 stars for me unfortunately ✨ Sorry!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Suicide, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, and Torture

thepinknarwhal's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Confinement, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Forced institutionalization, Murder, War, Torture, and Toxic friendship

corriejn's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Violence, Physical abuse, Suicide, Drug use, Murder, Death, Terminal illness, Stalking, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Gore, Torture, Toxic friendship, Forced institutionalization, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Dementia, Genocide, Child abuse, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Pregnancy, Infidelity, Gun violence, Child death, Medical content, Alcohol, War, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Rape

radinsh's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

Fluent writing style that pulls you in. However, plot repetitive beyond measure, even for a time loop.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Murder, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and War

tiredtori's review against another edition

As much as the premise interests me it was just too slow-paced for me to really get into it. While I enjoyed the writing there was not enough dialogue to keep it going or keep me interested. I felt like I was being told 'this happened' then 'this happened' rather than living it with Harry. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Torture