Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi

113 reviews

ayowrrld's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Sexual assault and Transphobia

Minor: Forced institutionalization

lurieta's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Self harm, and Medical trauma

hannah_and_her_stories's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Dysphoria, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Medical trauma, Drug use, and Self harm

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Murder, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Rape

Minor: Cancer

emelynreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

Singular. Bold. Self aware. Unapologetic. 

Formatted as letters to friends of the author. We witness Akwaeke's deeply personal writing over the expanse of several life altering events. Emezi's writing holds no comparisons. 

I'm now more than ever excited to read Freshwater.

Do not read without checking warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Cannibalism, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Sexual assault and Rape

sundayfever's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

Unlike any other memoir I've read. Some parts very relatable, some completely otherworldly. A refreshingly different look into an authors life.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

karina_dreamsinwords's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

Brutal, raw, and honest. Emezi's writing captivates no matter what.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Transphobia and Sexual assault

eelizabith's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Suicide

octobermontoya's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

5.0

Dear Senthuran is such an extraordinary book! Emezi's writing is poetic, powerful, funny, and full of uncomfortable and brutal honesty. this is a trans memoir, a memoir of indigenous cosmologies, a memoir of mental illness - but also not just not being of this world. It's a memoir about transition and transcendence. I read a review that said Emezi is arrogant, but what's wrong with that? Such a stunning piece of work about too many things to list in a review, not for the fainthearted. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

lbelow's review

5.0

These letters are personal, philosophical, poetic, and rich with emotion. So many of their lines moved me in ways I wasn't prepared for. This isn't a book I'll soon forget. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Rape, and Suicide attempt

slimebold's review against another edition

reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Suicidal thoughts