Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

67 reviews

directorpurry's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Child death, Body horror, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

nonidude's review against another edition

Wanted to like this after seeing high reviews but too spooky for me! Only got about 1/4 of the way through... interesting premise and read the summary online after, but just not my type of book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Alcohol, Self harm, Violence, Sexual content, Child death, Suicide attempt, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Gaslighting, and Blood

Moderate: Bullying, Kidnapping, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Animal death

luinthezu's review against another edition

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Suicide attempt, Drug use, Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Death

Minor: Fatphobia

jdcorley's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.5

It's an accident of history that this grody, grimy, lurid exploitation book materialized at a time when film and TV was going through a self-imposed stylistic minimization. This kind of book needs a De Palma adaptation circa 1983, where the emotions grow and corruption is in every corner until finally the agonizing endings cascade insanity in escalating wildness, then drops the curtain in a couple hundred words of a curtsey to the audience. Plenty of "troubled lady with modern haircut returns to small home town with secrets" books before and after this one , but this one relentlessly, wildly, screams in your ear that she shouldn't have done that. It's frankly great, a bravura debut.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicide, Child abuse, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Murder, Sexual violence, and Self harm

sivujensankari's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

At first, I thought I knew the murderer, but I was surprised. Some parts were boring.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Child abuse, and Self harm

Moderate: Vomit, Chronic illness, and Suicide attempt

readingmytroublesaway's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Rape, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Suicide attempt, Animal death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Physical abuse

brandywyne's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Sexism, Self harm, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Murder, Mental illness, Grief, Drug abuse, Bullying, Addiction, Violence, Sexual violence, Child death, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Death, and Alcoholism

inneraman's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

This book is dark and mysterious. It will make you reflect on the actions of the characters, a lot. I found myself trying to find way to ‘root for’ the main character but through some of their actions, I couldn’t decide. The main character is broken, flawed and emotionally unstable because of her upbringing and her toxic mother/environment. I found the book engaging and well written. I will be reading other books by Gillian Flynn. I recommend this book to anyone looking for a mysterious and dark story with troublesome characters who are beyond help. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Child death, Drug abuse, Murder, Addiction, Body horror, Death, Bullying, Child abuse, Mental illness, and Self harm

Moderate: Sexual content, Vomit, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Torture, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Sexism, Blood, Eating disorder, Misogyny, and Rape

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Animal cruelty, and Pregnancy

kry_yang's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

2.0

very dark and disturbing. idk what compelled me to finally read this but tbh i should have DNFed it halfway through because i found the protagonist sooo irritating. many CWs for this book so read with caution

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Drug use, Gore, Medical content, Body horror, Murder, Child death, Suicide attempt, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Child abuse, and Medical trauma

mellowreading's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

What an interesting little book. I was intrigued by the mystery, though I thought I’d guessed the killer several pages in. I guess in a way I did, but the last minute twist REALLY got me. The main character was awful, but in a way a human can be, not in a way so extreme that they seem like an unbelievable character or a villain. This made me swing between trying to sympathize with and understand her, and be disgusted by and judgemental of her. There’s also seems to be a strong commentary on women, relationships between women, societal expectations of women, awfulness in women, et cetera. I couldn’t quite get a grasp on what Flynn was intending to say, if anything, but maybe the intent was just to show and not tell. I’m curious what other people think of that aspect of the book. Looking back I think the ending was a bit rushed, but it was shocking enough to distract me from that. Overall an engaging but deeply uncomfortable time. It gets gross. 

big CW obviously for self harm, but also from gross sexualization of minors from a 30 year old woman, one of which is her little sister lmao, and victim blaming + internalized misogyny. The main character is gross. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Self harm, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Vomit, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Child death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Violence, Gaslighting, Grief, Murder, and Sexism

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Torture, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Incest