Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Follow the River by CE Ricci

7 reviews

nighthonesty's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Not sure why the author is so secretive about the trigger warnings. I was able to guess what was going to happen. However, doesn't detract from the fact the book is decent. It is well written and a lot of thought is given to the characters' journeys. While I have a complicated relationship in the characters, I was fully invested in their story. Left on a cliffhanger making need for reading the 2nd in the duet a must.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Confinement, Mental illness, Rape, Outing, and Alcohol

huevo181's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

friends2lovers's review

dark emotional 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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Child abuse, Cursing, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Drug abuse, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

madscientistcat's review

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Trigger warnings should be up front in this book. It’s not appropriate to hide them because of “spoilers” especially when they have the magnitude, gravity, and explicitness that these scenes have in here. I don’t read or care personally about CWs for myself, but I know it’s important to many people to include them, and their absence here is unnecessary and, frankly, appalling.

I’m torn on rating the book because of the thoughtlessness of the CW situation, but I decided to rate it as just the contents of the story and settle for leaving appropriate CWs on here and the mini-rant above.

This book ripped my heart right out. Devastating and emotional, full of pain and angst but also discovery and joy. Be prepared to read both books of this duology together as this book ends on a cliffhanger with no HEA/HFN. The next book does pick up right from the scene at the end. The writing is a little odd at times, and learning this was the author’s debut makes that make sense. The vibes are perfect though. For this book. The next one…. well. It’s *weird.* I’ll deal with that later though…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, and Alcohol

jennasbookarchive's review against another edition

dark emotional tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

cherryblossomreads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

Læs TW, hvis du er sårbar for særligt indhold.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Drug use, Rape, and Alcohol

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Death, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

tankytoon's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

5.0

What an emotional roller-coaster! This book is not your usual enemies-to-lovers romance as it is packed with so much pain and revelation that you can help but feel for the characters.

The sizzling chemistry between Rain and River is palpable from the get-go but one of them is fighting it, so much it turned into physical aggression that their Football coach had to intervene and send them both to a month's worth exile in order to bond. And bond they did.

There's so much heat, passion, hatred, submission, suffering, affection, confusing feelings to be unpacked by both Rain and River that it's a wonder if they will ever survive being together or being without.

This book has so much angst to get through that can leave the reader emotionally exhausted or overwhelmed, especially if one is sensitive to trigger content. But it's such a beautiful and heart-rending story that, if one can get past some of the traumatic passages, this book will give you a realistic narrative about how broken people can survive so much hate, and still manage to live through it. Or do they?

Author does not want to specify triggers but I do think it's warranted as I wasn't prepared for what I read and in some ways it's good, but it was difficult even for me who has read other deeply jarring books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, and Vomit