Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Divinos Rivais by Rebecca Ross

154 reviews

filipa_maia's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional funny hopeful 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: Complicated

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This book was such a surprise! I was not expecting to become so invested in this characters and a story about war.

I like how strong Iris is, I like how fearless Kitt is, I like Attie, and Marisol - this book has bunch of interesting and unique characters.

I loved all the twists and turns the plot took, just when I thought I had everything figured out, something completely blindsided me and I was caught of guard.

I can't wait to read the second book, find out more about these Gods, about Forest and how it will all end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Alcohol

rimsha04's review against another edition

4.75

challenging emotional hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Violence, Death of parent, War

melist6's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional 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: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood

amy_q13's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional 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: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Classism

Minor: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Vomit

amy_in_the_city's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional 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: No

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I loved the epistolary elements of this book, and the writing was absolutely beautiful! The love story felt very Pride & Prejudice-inspired. I liked the setting, but I thought there could have been a bit more worldbuilding. The fantasy elements (other than the magic typewriters and Kitt's magic house) felt too abstract. I don't feel like I got a good sense of the gods and the monsters, but I'm assuming that will be explored more in the sequel. Still, for most of the book, I felt like I was just reading a WWI historical novel instead of a different fantasy world inspired by WWI. I didn't understand the main characters' decision to

stay and defend the town even though they were not soldiers and had no fighting training or equipment. They didn't accomplish anything at all by staying, so the decision felt contrived for plot reasons.

. Another thing that seemed contrived for plot reasons is

Forest not revealing himself sooner and instead deciding that waiting to kidnap Iris during battle was the best course of action.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Medical content, Car accident, Alcohol

Minor: Sexual content, Stalking

greenlivingaudioworm's review against another edition

1.5

adventurous emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Diverse cast of characters: No

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Who put the idea in my head this book is high fantasy? Because this book is anything but high fantasy. In fact, there's so little fantasy I am inclined to say this book is historical fiction with a touch of magical realism. WHERE IS THE FANTASY?!

-Loved the magic of the connected typewriters and I wish this had been explored more.
-The love story was... fine? I can't say I was rooting for Iris & Roman more than other characters in other books, but it was cute still. The power dynamic felt off when Roman clearly knew so much more than Iris did for so much of this book but I can still appreciate the magic of enemies to lovers.
-There were these random stories with the Gods and supposedly the whole war is being waged against the Gods but it was so underdeveloped I just couldn't care.
-Strong WWI vibes and I liked learning more about trench warfare, even if this is a fiction book.
-In case you missed it before, this book is not fantasy and I am so angry it was pushed as such in my social media feeds. What a letdown. (All this coming from a girl who typically doesn't like high fantasy books).

I won't be reading the sequel. I deleted my hold before I even reached the end of this one. There are too many other (better) books to read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

cturn's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous hopeful inspiring medium-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

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Characters - 8
Atmosphere - 8
Writing - 8
Plot - 8
Intrigue - 10
Logic - 7
Enjoyment - 9
CAWPILE score - 8.3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, War

Moderate: Addiction, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol

Minor: Child death, Sexual content

chelly_reads's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

j_day's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War

cait's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism