Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

A Simple Favor by Darcey Bell

22 reviews

daniellelugashi's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Toxic friendship, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol, Addiction, and Drug use

Minor: Suicide

sugarmag995's review

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Toxic friendship, Suicide, and Alcoholism

tayrod4594's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

The characters in this book, despite some rather impressive character writing, ultimately feel more like two-dimensional soap opera stereotypes than actual people. Aside from the love they have for the children - expressed not at all in the ways they choose to mess up their lives, but still evident in other ways - not one of these people has a single redeeming quality. At times it felt like unintentional satire, but it did keep me engaged - all the way to the last page when I struggled to resist the urge to throw the book out the window. All I can say is that if you come to the book because you liked the movie, you're better off just watching the movie again. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Incest, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, Drug use, Addiction, Misogyny, Murder, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Car accident, Death, Emotional abuse, and Suicide

auri_underthing's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

Secrets. Façade. Love.

The book started off strong, but at some point, around the half way mark, it just tapered off. The whole thing seemed quite pointless and anticlimactic. 

I kept on waiting for there to be a twist, a magnificent twist that would blow the whole thing out of the monotony. But it never happened and the ending just seemed repetitive.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Suicide, and Toxic friendship

kxc319'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

3.5

This book has so many twists and turns, it definitely kept me reading. But the ending felt abrupt and unfinished to me. I felt a strong dislike for the characters which I attribute to good writing. It just left me wanting more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Addiction, Toxic friendship, Suicide, and Murder

vivisms_82's review against another edition

2.75

Truly unlikeable characters, poorly written and incest. The problem is the story had me wanting to read to the end and I did! A book that had a lot of promise but doesn't quite deliver.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Incest, and Suicide

becomingmk's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Incest, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, and Suicide

Minor: Drug use and Domestic abuse

taylorambl18's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Incest, Toxic friendship, and Death

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Infidelity and Drug use

cin19's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Suicide, Infidelity, Addiction, Stalking, Death, Suicide attempt, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, and Car accident

coco78337's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.5

Very middle of the road book. Didn’t really care about the characters or the twists. But a good “get your mind off things” book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Death, Dementia, Gaslighting, Incest, Suicide, Abandonment, Car accident, Grief, Infertility, Stalking, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship