Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

As de picas by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

59 reviews

avasbookmark's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racism, Homophobia, Bullying, and Car accident

Minor: Addiction and Rape

amorales107's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Toxic friendship, Drug use, Homophobia, and Addiction

Moderate: Abandonment

andreweaver88's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad 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: Racial slurs, Sexism, Addiction, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, Classism, Death of parent, Drug use, Gaslighting, Homophobia, and Racism

spaghettii's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.5

All the kids at that school were so rude throughout the whole thing, fuck them kids. 

If I went to school with kids like that I would've burned the whole thing down long before the protesters

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Classism, Death, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Outing, Physical abuse, Vomit, Alcohol, Biphobia, Child death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Addiction, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Stalking, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

canonically_k's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Death, and Racism

Moderate: Abandonment, Racial slurs, Toxic friendship, and Homophobia

Minor: Addiction and Suicidal thoughts

Perspective switches between two main characters per chapter

laurenkimoto's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-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? No

4.5

This books was described as Get Out meets Gossip Girl and it most definitely is. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Drug use, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Biphobia, Bullying, Classism, Emotional abuse, Outing, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Self harm, Sexism, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Addiction, Alcohol, Car accident, Death, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Murder, Slavery, and Suicidal thoughts

sonoma's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Classism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racism, Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, Outing, Toxic friendship, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Body shaming, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Suicide attempt, Death, Medical content, Police brutality, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Fatphobia, Grief, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

ging090803's review against another edition

informative mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

I was so angry. It was unimaginable to see this amount of racism… Yet it is still possible. The story of this school could happened and that’s what I’m most angry. 
I loved the two main characters. They were so different, I liked it. I like how Chiamaka had to grow and really sees things. 
Also, I really liked how the lgbtq+ topic was approach. It didn’t felt forced or abnormal. It was “oh yeah he’s gay” “ah wow, ok ig”
It wasn’t a perfect/exaggerated reactions but it also wasn’t an openly homophobe reaction. It was a normal one. Something we tend to expect in 2022. 
I just didn’t like the end. She missed something. It felt rush. Everything happened but nothing was really explained.

what happened with twitter and the protesters? How the parents really reacted knowing what their kids went through? How Chiamaka dealt with grief? What happened with Belle? What’s the complete story? What happened between Terrel and Devon? So many things that could have been exploited

I also didn’t like how it took time for them to figure out why they were targets. How the never had the idea of talking to each other to understand until it was pretty much too late. 
And, sometime, there were things that were pretty obvious

like Ruth, Ava, Jaimie being part of the Aces

But the characters catch it too late. 
A part of all this, I was really into the story. Aces was mysterious and really too mean. Both of the mains had there things to deal with including the bullying things. It was a great mysterious story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Blood, and Bullying

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Murder, Death, Suicide attempt, and Sexual content

Minor: Racial slurs, Stalking, Alcohol, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Gun violence

streebela's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative lighthearted sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Blood, Bullying, Homophobia, Infidelity, Addiction, Alcohol, Car accident, Death of parent, Death, Drug use, Grief, Murder, Racism, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

t_swizzle's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious tense fast-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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Outing, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Car accident, Cultural appropriation, Homophobia, Emotional abuse, and Bullying

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Addiction, Misogyny, Alcohol, and Suicide attempt