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namitakhanna's review
3.0
Suicide Thursday by Will Carver is a little bleak, dark twisty thriller with unreliable characters which made it an unique read for me.
I would like to thank the TBC Reviewers Request Group & the author for providing an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest and fair review
I would like to thank the TBC Reviewers Request Group & the author for providing an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest and fair review
jamieb305's review
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide
jericodebreaker's review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
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
3.5
dealga's review
challenging
dark
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
booksbybindu's review
5.0
It is once again my turn to wax lyrical about Will Carver and his genius stories and writing! You never know what to expect with a book from this writer. I don't even read the blurbs now I just go in blind as I want that moment of scratching your head, wondering what the hell is happening, questioning everything but receiving a rich and complex novel every single damn time! Each time I read one of his books I am not disappointed, I might be thoroughly confused and wonder what I have read! But I adore them all the same!
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‘Suicide Thursday’ is a thought-provoking portrayal of suicide, and those left behind. It's complex, it's dark and it makes you question your life and your priorities. It's multi-layered and not a word is out of place. You feel that each word is very specifically chosen to make you question everything! But for me, this book is actually about hope. That there is always a way to change your life. Things can get better.
Eli has a problem with finishing things. He is a writer who never gets past the first chapter, he wants to quit his job, and he wants to end his relationship. But he can't follow through on these wishes. When his best friend Mike commits suicide Eli is finally able to harness some motivation to change his life. His sessions with his therapist show that his ‘first chapters’ take a lot of inspiration from his life and then there is a series of text messages between Mike and an anonymous sender who seems to be encouraging Mike to end his life.
I couldn't help but like Eli. There has been many a time I have been hovering over ctrl alt delete in jobs and hating every second of it. Being unable to help those we love because of their mental health struggles and then struggling when the most horrible happens. Suicide is always going to be a hard subject matter for a lot of people but Carver’s magic is that he doesn't sensational it. It just happens. It's a catalyst rather than the end. As although this book is about this issue it's multilayered as it's more about Eli and how he copes. But is Eli who he seems? Is Eli an unreliable narrator - well of course he is? We all are really. What intrigued and fascinated me is all of his first chapters and his idea for a ‘first chapter shop’! At times I wondered whether the chapters were going to the real story. Argh it's always so hard to review a Carver book!
Being a Carver fan I loved all the nods to previous books! I had it in my head that the sender of the text messages was going to be Maeve from ‘Psychopaths Anonymous’ for some reason. Thought she would get an enormous kick out of those conversations. Anyway, that's just me!
Let me know if pick this one up as I would love to discuss it!
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‘Suicide Thursday’ is a thought-provoking portrayal of suicide, and those left behind. It's complex, it's dark and it makes you question your life and your priorities. It's multi-layered and not a word is out of place. You feel that each word is very specifically chosen to make you question everything! But for me, this book is actually about hope. That there is always a way to change your life. Things can get better.
Eli has a problem with finishing things. He is a writer who never gets past the first chapter, he wants to quit his job, and he wants to end his relationship. But he can't follow through on these wishes. When his best friend Mike commits suicide Eli is finally able to harness some motivation to change his life. His sessions with his therapist show that his ‘first chapters’ take a lot of inspiration from his life and then there is a series of text messages between Mike and an anonymous sender who seems to be encouraging Mike to end his life.
I couldn't help but like Eli. There has been many a time I have been hovering over ctrl alt delete in jobs and hating every second of it. Being unable to help those we love because of their mental health struggles and then struggling when the most horrible happens. Suicide is always going to be a hard subject matter for a lot of people but Carver’s magic is that he doesn't sensational it. It just happens. It's a catalyst rather than the end. As although this book is about this issue it's multilayered as it's more about Eli and how he copes. But is Eli who he seems? Is Eli an unreliable narrator - well of course he is? We all are really. What intrigued and fascinated me is all of his first chapters and his idea for a ‘first chapter shop’! At times I wondered whether the chapters were going to the real story. Argh it's always so hard to review a Carver book!
Being a Carver fan I loved all the nods to previous books! I had it in my head that the sender of the text messages was going to be Maeve from ‘Psychopaths Anonymous’ for some reason. Thought she would get an enormous kick out of those conversations. Anyway, that's just me!
Let me know if pick this one up as I would love to discuss it!
kellyvandamme's review
5.0
Will Carver books are notoriously unreviewable but this one here takes the biscuit. But you know, it’s fine, I can manage, I’m fine, any minute now the words will come and I will write you the very best review I’ve ever written. Seriously, I promise, it’s all going to work out, I’m totally fine, I’m…
Wait.
You don’t think I might be… *whispers* in denial?
Wait.
You don’t think I might be… *whispers* in denial?
renari's review against another edition
3.75
quite triggering as it goes into very gory detail about the suicide
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Mental illness, Self harm, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Gore, Violence, Alcohol, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship
anneduff's review
5.0
I finished reading this book just 5 minutes ago but I want to do my review while I'm still reeling...
I really could not put this book down. I was absorbed throughout and breathless at the end. My first Will Carver book but definitely not my last, although I'll have to wait until I've plucked up some courage before i start another.
This is the first book I've read that has been responsible for disturbing dreams that I remembered on waking, although that's not necessarily a bad thing.
3 points of view. 3 deeply complex, disturbed, funny, normal people. A look at suicide from inside and outside. But not just at suicide. At hopes, ambitions, fears, insecurities, love, endings and beginnings.
This is such a dark, twisty story that speeds along at a pace with which it feels it's going to be too hard to keep up, then stops for a breather, a lie down, maybe a gentle jog until it's off again at full pelt.
I feel a little bit like I've been mown down by a bus, but.......I want to do it again!
I really could not put this book down. I was absorbed throughout and breathless at the end. My first Will Carver book but definitely not my last, although I'll have to wait until I've plucked up some courage before i start another.
This is the first book I've read that has been responsible for disturbing dreams that I remembered on waking, although that's not necessarily a bad thing.
3 points of view. 3 deeply complex, disturbed, funny, normal people. A look at suicide from inside and outside. But not just at suicide. At hopes, ambitions, fears, insecurities, love, endings and beginnings.
This is such a dark, twisty story that speeds along at a pace with which it feels it's going to be too hard to keep up, then stops for a breather, a lie down, maybe a gentle jog until it's off again at full pelt.
I feel a little bit like I've been mown down by a bus, but.......I want to do it again!
megantee's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0