Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Juniper & Thorn by Ava Reid

15 reviews

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

dark 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Xenophobia, Addiction, Gaslighting, Body shaming, Misogyny, Child abuse, Death, Animal death, Violence, Alcohol, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Gore, Classism, Medical content, Sexual assault, Blood, Animal cruelty, Medical trauma, Sexual violence, Torture, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Eating disorder, Sexual harassment, Murder, and Grief

Moderate: Self harm, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Bullying, and Hate crime

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Pedophilia, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Incest, Racial slurs, Infertility, and Infidelity

Beastiality.

thehobbitbarbie's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Blood, Addiction, Body horror, Death, Rape, Gaslighting, Animal death, Sexual harassment, Abortion, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Body shaming, Child abuse, Eating disorder, and Gore

khushir_11's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

If I see the word breasts one more time I’m going to lose it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Blood, Body shaming, Sexual content, Body horror, Murder, Sexual harassment, Xenophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Addiction, Classism, Vomit, Cannibalism, Alcohol, Animal death, Death, Domestic abuse, Animal cruelty, and Emotional abuse

amyreadstoomuch10's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Animal death, Body horror, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Confinement, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Addiction, Alcohol, and Gore

vanessa_books26's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Death, Classism, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Cannibalism, Sexual content, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Blood, and Animal death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, and Addiction

Minor: Racism and Racial slurs

illuminae's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Rape, Child abuse, Addiction, and Sexual violence

meat_muffin's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

Listen, this book was… weird. And not my usual style at all! I’m glad I read it, enjoyed the writing style, but it wrapped up leaving me more confused than anything else and not filling in all of the plot holes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Fatphobia, Blood, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Sexual violence, Murder, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Cannibalism, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Classism, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Colonisation, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Vomit

Minor: Abortion, Addiction, and Alcohol

sebastianslays's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.0

This book is so badly written, the themes are terrible and handled with so little taste.  The main protagonist is so unlikeable and does herself no favours. I didn't totally hate the love interest, and their romance wasn't the worse I've read. But there are some disgusting and, to be frank, toxic tropes in here so please read trigger warnings because lord knows I didn't.  Every second paragraph made me so irritated, and yet, honestly, I had a blast reading this.
That being said I would only recommend it to people who would enjoy hating on it as much as I do.

I don't see how you can so plainly talk about things like sexual assault, eating disorders, child abuse, child extortion, emotional manipulation, addiction/alcoholism and basically every other trigger under the sun and not address how deeply traumatic all that is? Oh, but don't worry; love will cure it all.  
I was deeply disturbed by the way Undine's death was handled; in that it wasn't. 
Yet I was so on board for Marlinchen becoming the monster of her own story, but it happened too late to save the book.
Please stop repeating paragraphs. I do not care exactly what charms are on her mothers bracelet; certainly not enough to get the same paragraph handed to me 3 times.

I would have given it 2.5 stars, but it gets an extra half star for the monster f***ing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Gore, Vomit, Addiction, and Eating disorder

zoeblair17's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

Literally ALL the trigger warnings! Not a story for the faint of heart but that warning speaks so highly of the writing! Not usually a horror/dark fairytale gal but the way the author tells this story is immersive and captivating 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Sexism, Addiction, Alcohol, Confinement, Sexual assault, Grief, Animal cruelty, Blood, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Murder, Self harm, Animal death, Death, Eating disorder, Racism, Vomit, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, and Alcoholism

_annika__'s review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, Violence, Death, Gaslighting, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Blood, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Addiction, Body horror, Confinement, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse