Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

The Pisces by Melissa Broder

132 reviews

denacolada's review

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Vomit, Animal death, Self harm, Sexual content, Addiction, and Mental illness

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Excrement

Minor: Death of parent and Abortion

birdiestitching's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, and Blood

Moderate: Suicide attempt

leannaaaa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

Not as good as milk fed, but Broder’s writing is captivating as usual. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Addiction, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Suicide attempt

kkellz19's review

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

Melissa Broder’s voice is definitely not for everyone, but it is definitely for me. She seamlessly blurs the line between reality and fantasy, or maybe delusion. The female protagonist is incredibly unlikeable, yet simultaneously incredibly relatable. As the story veers into the absurd, she is able to explore the human experience and emotion from such a raw place. No, I have never been in a relationship with a merman, but I have grappled with codependency, insecurity, and losing my identity in toxic relationships. I think the exploration of these basic human experiences is more accessible because it is told from the perspective of the absurd and delusional. 

I have noticed the trend in reviews from all three of her novels of an aversion to how sex and bodies are described. While, I completely agree that there are descriptions that are stomach churning, I personally appreciate the realness of it. Sex and bodies, and bodily fluids, are kind of gross, but they are a part of life and intimacy that we try to ignore, probably in part from a place of shame, which we see Lucy struggling with this shame. I find her inclusion and acceptance of this refreshing and more accurate to reality than the perfect, sanitized portrayal of sex and intimacy found in most of literature, TV, and film. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual content

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

dixiecarroll's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Afraid to say that this one was rough for me. I love and adore her so so much but this story didn’t do it for me. I’m so annoyed but she’s still fantastic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Excrement, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Violence, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, and Vomit

emsapp's review

dark emotional funny reflective tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

kingsamong's review

dark emotional sad fast-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Sexual content, and Animal death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Mental illness

Minor: Self harm

dizzzybrook's review against another edition

 DNF @ 52%

I love Melissa Broder and will continue to read/buy anything she puts out. However, I am extremely hit or miss when it comes to smut in books and unfortunately this one is just not working for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Gore, Sexism, Excrement, Body shaming, Misogyny, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Blood, Mental illness, Animal death, and Fatphobia

roshma's review

challenging dark 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I downloaded this ebook because booktok was tagging this a fish/mermaid-sex. This book is so much more than that. This is not meant to be a light read. This books deals with depression, self harm, low self esteem, toxic relationships and addiction. The internal monologues of the protagonist is lengthy and talks in great depth on each of the subjects, a lot of self reflections and slowly breaking from harmful patterns. The conflict is presented naturally: and the climb is slow. Do not pick this book if are looking for smut 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Addiction, and Suicidal thoughts

niltic's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

Darkly, darkly funny. This book is good, and the humour and delivery felt very fresh/contemporary to me. It's incredible that Broder can weave in so many tones and dark themes and jokes into one tight package. I laughed out loud multiple times, but reader beware that some topics won't be for everyone.  I knew very little and found the plot quite surprising, depressing and silly! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Animal death

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Mental illness, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Drug abuse and Animal cruelty

Suicide and depression

is a very pervasive theme in the book. Most plot and character elements relate to this theme, so I think it would be hard to engage with the book at all if this is a no-go zone for you. (Somehow, the book makes this sad and funny!)