Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

82 reviews

frenandjen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence

Moderate: Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, Torture, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Genocide, Grief, Infidelity, Misogyny, Murder, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Rape, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

twyla's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Emotional abuse

readerorwateva's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Violence, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Alcohol, Animal death, and Death

Moderate: Miscarriage

yonireadss's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad slow-paced

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

4.5

An amazing book that felt so realistic. As you’re reading you can see how this can become a possibility especially as we seem to have gone backwards in womens rights to autonomy. I liked the narrative style and the way she would tell us what she wanted to and felt was important. This helped to make the story seem even more real. The pacing of the book was quite slow and at times I did find myself loosing interest at parts where it seemed unnecessary information, but I can see how it was all important. The way lines from the bible is used to justify the system in Gilead was petrifying. I am still confused about how everything was run but due to the narrator of the story it makes sense as to why we don’t fully understand. I loved seeing things from the narrators perspective as it felt as if I was there and I was discovering the mysteries as they were revealed by her and too her. I really did like this book but I think because of the pacing of the book it took me forever to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Violence

pixelited's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, War, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Infertility, Confinement, Rape, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Death, Violence, and Trafficking

jessicaa_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Miscarriage, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Grief, Rape, Suicide attempt, Misogyny, Confinement, Infertility, and Hate crime

tarines316's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

While the book is slow paced, I think the writing allows the reader to understand more of the main character’s inner thoughts. The book provides an interesting and sobering look at how certain ideologies can progress and cause complete societal collapse. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Suicide, Violence, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Infertility, Infidelity, Misogyny, and Sexual violence

kayleejanes'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? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Confinement, Murder, Violence, Death, Homophobia, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, Torture, Suicide, Classism, Emotional abuse, Deportation, Kidnapping, Colonisation, and Suicidal thoughts

124smilehd's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-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? No

4.75

I saw this book being referenced so much in the last couple of years so I wanted to see what the hype was and it did not disappoint. The story offers very little regarding world-building as we are limited to the prespective and knowledge of OfFred, in a world where the women aren't even allowed to read due to the fear of rebellion it is no wonder why they would keep a lot of information from the handmaid. The lack of information was almost enough to only give it 3.75 stars however

the ending where we see the future perspective of the era being in a academic conference gave it so much more context and life that I finally understood the book

.  It was an almost perfect book, I just wish we could have seen more of the world. I cannot wait to read the sequal.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexism, and Trafficking

Moderate: Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Confinement

Minor: Abortion, Trafficking, and Suicide attempt

lexib13's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

wow. the parallels between Gilead and America in 2023 are insane. this book restored my faith in humanity while simultaneously crumbling it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Torture, Violence, Grief, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Death, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Medical content, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Murder, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, Excrement, Infertility, Kidnapping, Mental illness, War, Trafficking, and Vomit