Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

How We Fall Apart by Katie Zhao

31 reviews

sharlottetheshark's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Death, Murder, Stalking, Classism, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Self harm, Mental illness, Suicide, and Physical abuse

Minor: Antisemitism, Blood, Fatphobia, and Medical content

todayisbee's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Minor: Drug abuse

izzyslittlelibrary's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Classism, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Racism, Drug use, Alcohol, Blood, and Xenophobia

themoodreader's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Toxic relationship, Blood, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic friendship, Bullying, and Classism

Minor: Blood, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Death, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Classism, and Physical abuse

maregred's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Suicide and Death

Minor: Child abuse

xiekaili's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Torture, Toxic friendship, and Suicide

Moderate: Blood, Mental illness, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Drug use, Addiction, and Bullying

bluntjedi's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

itzbrianna's review against another edition

mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

This mystery is incredibly tantalizing and will leave you frustrated, angry, and maybe even a little set on revenge.

How we fall apart is a tale of how destructive it can be to be the child of immigrant parents. It forces you to come to terms with all the ways your parents may have harmed you despite their love for you. And it puts a mirror up to the delusion immigrants drink in when coming to the United States. 

Though I enjoyed this book, I was quite disappointed with the ending on how it was left with two of the characters. One particular character deserves to be in JAIL. And the other let their minimal character development flush down the drain. 

Katie Zhao did an amazing job with her descriptions, attention to detail, and a shocking twist at the climax of this story. Where Zhao and possibly the editors have fallen short, is the character development for the main characters. There was a lot of potential to have certain people grow by the conclusion of this book. Though I love the theme of revenge throughout this book nonetheless. 

If you are someone who thinks about revenge fantasies and loves a murder mystery, this novel is for you! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Toxic friendship, and Bullying

Moderate: Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Minor: Racism

unhxly's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Enjoyable plot but I wanted more, for example classicism and privelege was touched on but not talked about as indepth as I would've liked. The ending was pretty underwhelming.

We barely know the main villain, so the emotional impact wasn't there.

Enjoyed that there was a diverse cast, need to see more of that in the dark academia space.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Classism, and Murder

Minor: Suicide and Xenophobia

ao3simp's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Racism, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Mental illness