Reviews tagging 'Vomit'

As de picas by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

65 reviews

calamitywindpetal's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Homophobia, Racism, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Violence, Vomit, Police brutality, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Gun violence

shine_books1's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Racism, Vomit, and Alcohol

evelynyle_88's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

WHAT A HELLA RIDE.... 5⭐

First, I wanna say thank you to Miss Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé for creating the world about Niveus Private Academy. This book is beyond perfect! Well, at the start... it feels usual, but after you read about 40 pages of the story, the chills started. I can imagine myself; there... being Chiamaka Adebayo. I positioned myself as her as I read the whole story.

Ace of Spades simply stole my heart! This book is a brilliant book. Disturbing, giving so many chills, brutally-emotional, scary at some points.. but this book is brilliant. Even scarier even there's no ghosts in this story. 

This book is the one to read and I hella can't put the book down even for only five minutes. The story, the characters, the settings, the plots... are perfect and sickeningly good! This is why I put this book in the front line of my Spooktober reads. Spooky things not always comes from ghosts thingy, am I right?

I never find the thriller-mystery book that left chills so much; even now.. when I write this review and finished reading this already. This book leaves a gasp for me and makes me smirk at the end; the epilogue.

What a perfect of twisted 'oh' ending. All hail, Ace of Spades! ♠️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Blood, Stalking, Car accident, Outing, and Alcohol

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Drug use, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Forced institutionalization

t_higgsreviews's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

5 Stars
CAWPILE = 9.07

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Bullying, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, and Classism

Moderate: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Outing

Minor: Chronic illness, Drug use, Sexual content, and Injury/Injury detail

claireredd's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

Minor: Vomit

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

caitlin033's review against another edition

challenging 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, and Outing

Moderate: Gun violence and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Drug use, Sexual assault, Vomit, and Suicide attempt

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

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

_childuntold's review against another edition

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

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

5.0

Oh my god… I have no words. Absolutely none... I don't write much reviews so bear with me here.

I went into this semi-blind, taking the content warnings into consideration. And I'm glad I didn't go into this blind because I don't think my mental health could handle it.

This book literally excelled my expectations and to be honest, this book kept me locked in so hard that I had to force myself to put it down (yes it's that good). A complete 10000/10 and a definite reread. 

If you are someone that plans on reading this, please do look up the content warnings as this book has a lot of touchy subjects. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, and Outing

Minor: Drug use, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Alcohol

taviarz's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.0

Definitely reads like a TV show. I just wish we had more scenes of Chiamaka and Devon actually talking to each other and building a friendship. Also thought that maybe the story was trying to cover too much? Like there needed to be moments of relief at points. Overall I thought it was entertaining and had a good discussion on structural racism for the intended age group.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Car accident, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Gun violence and Death of parent

Minor: Death, Vomit, and Suicide attempt