Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

7 reviews

vouija's review against another edition

mysterious reflective 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Self harm, Cancer, and Suicidal thoughts

refrejarator's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

I feel so hopeless after reading this. Madly depressing and terribly mysterious.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Excrement, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Self harm, War, Cancer, Grief, Police brutality, Suicide, Dementia, and Terminal illness

itsybitsygingie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.5

This was an incredibly difficult yet beautiful book to read. It brought forth some incredibly difficult feelings concerning being human and the role of womanhood within society. My one slight of the book was the sheer amount of anti-female sentiments from the main character. Her one consistent thought throughout the book was that she was better because she wasn’t constrained by the supposedly womanly traits of the other characters, and I didn’t see as much growth as I would liked concerning this position. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Pandemic/Epidemic, Forced institutionalization, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, Genocide, Violence, Murder, Terminal illness, Grief, Suicide, Mental illness, and Emotional abuse

meaghanelizabook's review

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Grief, Misogyny, Cancer, Murder, Mental illness, Confinement, Death, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

juli161's review

dark mysterious 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? N/A

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Blood, Death, Drug use, Suicide, Violence, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Suicide attempt, Body horror, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, and Murder

saoreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny informative 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

It was a story filled with questions and the unfamiliarity of someone within what's usually normal to men and women in general. The desolation and deafening silence of living in a world with no one around, and the dying hope that there ever will be? What of the facts and knowledge the heroine had learned yet it was of no use as there was nothing to work for? No one to share that learned knowledge with? It's like screaming at a four-cornered wall, yet an echo never comes back. It is to the point that the things she never had use of, of what made her woman, were the cause of her death, or forced her rather. It leaves an afterthought that her life was eventually justified, but by what means? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Death, Self harm, Abandonment, Grief, and Suicide

sleepytimesoul's review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

Beautiful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Grief, Death, Self harm, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts