Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Mehr als das by Bettina Abarbanell, Patrick Ness

36 reviews

bananzabean's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective tense slow-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? Yes

3.0

Slow to read, it took a while to get going and even then it was never super fast paced or anything.  The flashbacks are definitely the best part. I don’t think I would recommend this book to people who weren’t big readers.  I do like how the book wraps up though - very intentional and wraps up the story nicely. I think the weakest part of the book for me was the mystery. Not because it was bad, but because I have seen other books deal with

the sci-fi / online world trope

better and to greater effect. I think this is probably my fault for reading this book a decade after it came out. I am probably just ranking it unfairly against more modern books. Unfortunately there are some really cool modern books nowadays that deal with these topics and so this book can seem a bit weak in comparison.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Murder

hollymileham's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

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

3.25

this was a reread and i remember adoring it when i was younger but it just had a lot of pacing issues and over used -'s too much for me this time around

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Outing

Moderate: Infidelity

phoehems's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Ok so the beginning was very interesting. Sometimes a bit repetitive, but intriguing.

There was no one for Seth to interact with for a big chunk of the beginning. And that was interesting.

The flashbacks/dreams were also very well written. 
Regine and Tomasz are amazing. They are deep interesting characters. Regine's personality keeps you guessing about her background. Tomasz is just so endearing. All the characters have tragic backstories.

This book is literally the Matrix. On a basic level, the Driver is the robots etc, 'real life' is Zion, Regine and Seth... Trinity and Neo? Does that make Tomasz Morpheus? Anyway, there's nothing in this story that I didn't 'know' from the Matrix. Yet somehow I still didn't know what was going to happen next. Well written!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, and Rape

numbat's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

armontheroad's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

Patrick Ness never misses! I went into this not knowing anything, and I’m so glad I did. After figuring out this is not just a hard-hitting contemporary novel, my reading experience just got better and better. This was gut-wrenching and beautiful. I loved our main characters, the apocalyptic setting, and the ending. Everything about this was great! Wish I had known the content warnings beforehand because this book was graphic, although it was all handled well. I will say, it made me slightly uncomfortable the way one of our characters was written, however, it is not my voice you should be listening to when it comes to that rep. I highly implore you to go look at reviews from Black readers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Outing, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

boyunrelated's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

I read this book for the first time back when i was 16, closeted, and suicidal. It was what i needed to hear at the time, and became my favourite.

It’s ten years later. I’m 26, i’m out, and i’m free. a lot has changed. The book isnt as impactful for me anymore, but it’s also not what i need to hear anymore. i’m glad i had it when i did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Kidnapping, and Suicide attempt

thegr1mreader's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, Kidnapping, and Outing

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Vomit, and Religious bigotry

eve_o's review against another edition

challenging mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

What just happened?? What? I don’t even know how to process this, I was on board until the middle. 
this had so much potential to be cool if it just got proofread a bit and maybe didn’t steal the plot twist. the whole ending i wanted to slap him for being so annoying. i audibly complained so often that my mom had to ask me to be quiet, but it was a fun, quick read, but check trigger warnings!

when they introduced the whole matrix thing i was so disappointed

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicide

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infidelity, Excrement, Vomit, and Alcohol

evilo_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Alcoholism, Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction and Child abuse

Minor: Domestic abuse

itkit's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Murder