Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson

22 reviews

starryophonic's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Bullying, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Death, Homophobia, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

mackenzienoelle's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad fast-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Miscarriage, Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, Homophobia, Hate crime, Bullying, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Alcohol, Outing, Kidnapping, and Physical abuse

chrisljm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-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

3.25

3.25; Objectively, this is a good story and it was written very well. I see why so many people love it and why it means so much to them, and I understand it can be especially important to those who’ve read it during specific times in their life. But subjectively it was hard for me to read because it was so incredibly bleak and depressing, and I didn’t enjoy that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, and Sexual content

Minor: Mass/school shootings, Rape, and Racism

graff_fuller's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

3.0

We are the Ants

I picked up this book because Jade of Bedtime Bookworm YT/Discord channel mentioned it during our Book Club discussion about Matt Haig's The Humans. 

While she was reading that book, she kept thinking there was a "big red button" to push. Afterwards (or maybe during her reading of The Humans) she realized that she must have been thinking of another book. 

One of the members of the Book Club looked it up and it was THIS book. We are the Ants. Since I read a LOT...I decided to take the plunge and read it.

Okay. This is not anything like The Humans. That book was funny, lots of pop culture references, the main character is an alien, so his views on humanity were funny and the situations that he was put in...were sometimes (most of the time) comedic. Generally a book about anxiety and a "self help" look at our lives. A generally up beat book on life.

This book is NOTHING like that. This book is about a homosexual boy (in high school) who was in love with another boy who later committed suicide. It is basically how he and the others (in their circle) are dealing with Jesse's suicide.

Oh, the protagonist (Henry Denton) has also been abducted by aliens (slug like creatures) and the town/high school know about it...though they don't believe it. Honestly, as the reader...I don't believe it, either. I think it is his coping mechanism for his loss [my thoughts about 25% into the book].

This book has taken me a LOT longer to read. I keep wanting to pick up another book (which I have FOUR times). 

Not sure when I will finish this book, but it has been a journey. I do want to finish it, for I am curious on "what actually happened". Is the alien abduction real...or a figment of his imagination. How will he eventually get through the death of Jesse and go on with his life? So, as you can see...it is riveting enough to keep me turning the pages...but if I put the book down...it is HARD for me to WANT to pick it back up. Ugh.
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Just finished the book. I can say that the end of the story uplifting. This book makes you face your fears, who and what you are, who you want to be and be with.

Though I cannot say that I enjoyed reading this book, I'm glad that I finished it. I now know what the author was going for. He went all in...which I can respect. BUT, the ending fell flat for me...especially since I do not like ambiguous endings. Ugh.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

kittykaz's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

5.0

This was my second time reading it and i think i cried even harder than the first. Will be making myself an emotional support hot choco now, thank you very much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Violence, Bullying, Dementia, Grief, Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Self harm

jacintha_'s review

emotional inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

heyitsdaliiii's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative 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: Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

akira_outofthegravity's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

After the suicide of his boyfriend and being abandoned by his best friend, Henry is left alone in the world. He’s in a toxic relationship with his bully, his awful older brother is going to be a dad, and his grandmother is slowly losing herself to dementia. Henry is also periodically kidnapped by aliens. They’ve now given him a choice, the world will blow up in a couple months time, and only Henry has the power to stop it. But will he find a reason to?

This book is everything I wanted A Little Life to be, it doesn’t shy away from its very delicate and sad subject matter, but Henry’s evolution into his better self is incredible and honestly gave me hope that I, too, could be semi functional one day. His suicidal ideation is very well written and the death of his boyfriend Jesse is very delicately handled, and shows the aftermath of that act without blaming anyone- including Jesse himself. All in all this is a heartbreaking story but it ends happily, which is all I can ask for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Dementia, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Bullying, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Blood

Henry’s brothers girlfriend miscarries their unborn child

gwas007's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Miscarriage, Mental illness, Homophobia, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Death, Bullying, Body shaming, and Alcohol

grace007's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Child death, Death, Grief, Homophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Bullying, Dementia, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Minor: Cursing