Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Let Me in by John Ajvide Lindqvist

11 reviews

c0rpsekat's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Medical content, Excrement, Torture, and Animal death

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, Drug use, Bullying, and Animal death

soph_mills's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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: Death, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Pedophilia, Bullying, Murder, and Child abuse

Moderate: Torture, Addiction, Suicide, Terminal illness, Alcohol, and Suicidal thoughts

sargasso_c's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

The book starts pretty strong, lags a bit in the middle, and definitely picks up towards the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Sexual assault, Violence, Torture, Medical content, Bullying, Murder, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Gore, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Drug abuse, Pedophilia, Suicide, Terminal illness, Child death, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

Minor: Excrement, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Fatphobia, and Mental illness

jbcrue's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Suicide, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Self harm, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Drug use, Gore, Sexual violence, Violence, Rape, Animal death, Body horror, Medical content, Terminal illness, Vomit, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Excrement, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

jaedia's review against another edition

Did not enjoy

the paedophile perspective. At all. Why? I'm sure something comes of it later but ew

. The writing style was fine enough to read but the story itself just felt too mundane and I couldn't get interested. None of the characters were interesting to me, or loveable. Even when

the vampire attacks somebody

there was no excitement there, I didn't feel gripped, no suspense. I was just bored. Decided not to waste my time further. It may well pick up but many books to read, little time!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Blood, Murder, Pedophilia, Suicide attempt, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, and Fatphobia

slushhhhy's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Violence, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Bullying, Gore, and Murder

astre_errant's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Gore, Murder, and Pedophilia

vixenreader's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

Despite being overstuffed, it has a lot of bite, and pathos. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Classism, Death, Pedophilia, Torture, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, and Outing

Moderate: Animal death, Alcoholism, Cursing, Homophobia, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Drug use, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

Minor: Abandonment, Excrement, Racial slurs, and Vomit

There is a graphic scene of a young boy being castrated, and the pedophilia in the book is quite prevalent. The gender identity in the book will bring up a lot of issues in terms of representation of trans youth. Plus there is some scenes featuring unintentional urination.

carrionkid's review against another edition

3.5

I enjoyed this book a lot, I only wish the author was a LITTLE less weird about kids. I don't think we needed an in depth description of a kid who keeps pissing himself deciding to stick memory foam on his penis which he calls "the pissball". That seemed unnecessary.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Blood, Body horror, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Animal death, and Child abuse

spoookycat's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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: Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Medical content