Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Last Words from Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin

20 reviews

vapourwavey's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

brutal, cerebral, visceral, intense—this epistolary text defies categorization as a love letter, a suicide note and a political act altogether.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

andratalpi's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts

dycojams's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Mental illness

Moderate: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Animal death and Sexual content

sapphicbookfae's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Moderate: Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

talonsontypewriters's review

dark reflective 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Mental illness, Grief, and Animal death

Moderate: Suicide, Death, Sexual content, Self harm, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Eating disorder

Minor: Rape, Vomit, Alcohol, and Racial slurs

gagne's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad tense slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Animal death and Grief

Qiu Miaojin was a famous lesbian Taiwanese writer who died by suicide in Paris in 1995 and this book is loosely based on her life prior to her death and was published post-mortem.

uhm_kai's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

I want to share this book with everybody dear to me, but at the same time I want to keep it for myself. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

electrifyingpenguin's review

dark emotional reflective slow-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

4.0

Never have I come across a protagonist who lays out her feelings for another like this. It's raw and emotionally devastating, and knowing Qiu Miaojin's background only makes the writing more intense. I didn't like it as much as Notes of a Crocodile without all the social criticism, but it strikes a different chord with how brutally honest the writing is about the protagonist's love and obsession for her ex-girlfriend. It really feels disturbingly like reading the author's thoughts leading up to her suicide.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Self harm

morebedsidebooks's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Grief and Animal death

Minor: Alcoholism and Domestic abuse

saintsaens's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book is not structured like any other. There is no plot, no goal. It's the narrator's love which, through letters they write to their lovers, weaves the book together. The content, and all the raw emotions expressed in it, can be difficult to handle and face. It's challenging, but incredibly touching. A classic in Taiwanese literature.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Suicidal thoughts