Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

The Chain by Adrian McKinty

67 reviews

chris_crossed99's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

3.0

Such an absolutely wild concept but overall really good. The beginning was a bit slow but the more I read the more I couldn’t put it down 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Addiction, Gun violence, Trafficking, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Cancer

peyviz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I enjoyed this book overall. My only complaint is it went on a little too long after the main storyline was over, the ending could have been shorter. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Stalking, Gun violence, Drug abuse, Death, Addiction, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Blood, and Gore

Moderate: Alcohol, Cancer, Terminal illness, Alcoholism, and Medical content

Minor: Abandonment and War

devowynn's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cancer, Kidnapping, Addiction, and Gun violence

Moderate: Drug abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Violence, Cursing, Animal death, Murder, and Death

ayodougie's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? No

3.5

3.5 stars. Great plot and suspenseful but no real plot twist and was kind of predictable. 3.5 stars they could have went over the edge with this one but fell short. This first part had me indulged with it's fast pace and suspense, but the second part kind of sizzled everything.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Drug use and Addiction

kyra_joy's review against another edition

challenging tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Was definitely an interesting story, and feels like it should have its own short series on Netflix. Only lost me as the some pieces felt a bit too unreal, and some of the writing felt a bit cheesy but very good overall.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Drug use, Addiction, and Kidnapping

antidietleah's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Cancer, Confinement, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Violence, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Murder

Moderate: Alcohol and Blood

Minor: Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual content

chronicloser's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.75

the plot was interesting and some of the characters were fine (minus the cartoon-esque villains) but nothing Hooked me, really. I did like how they kept bringing up stranger things though. I bet kylie loves nancy wheeler

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Kidnapping, Cancer, Child abuse, Addiction, and Trafficking

haveyseentis's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Kidnapping

honey_coated_chapters's review against another edition

tense medium-paced

3.0

°:. *₊ ° . ° .•

𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈: 3//5

𝑵𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒔: 346

𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒓𝒆: thriller/suspense 

𝑸𝒖𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔: 

•crime 

•kidnapping 

•”what would you do?”

🚨violence, child abduction, child abuse, animal abuse, suicidal ideology, addiction 🚨

𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆: law and order SVU or any other cop show with a female main character who’s slightly annoying but you can’t help but root for because why would you root for the killer? 

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Is the story believable? Absolutely not. If you like your thrillers believable, don’t pick this up. I had to suspend my belief the whole way through. Is it entertaining? Absolutely. The book is split into 2 parts. Part 1 being entertaining, fast paced and action-packed while part 2 slows down into more cerebral territory (diving into the background of the founders of the chain) while also explaining how those caught in the chain heal or… not. It also picks up in an intelligent way (computer cracking, code dealing, HTML MySpace shit x’s100)

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The author writes really well and I like his descriptions. He does go into some gun details, which didn’t bother me at all but if you dislike talks of weapons it might bother you. The premise was out of this world and I found it interesting, even the unbelievable parts were well thought out. I loved considering the possibilities of what I would do in a situation like this and honestly I’d probably burn the world down 🙃

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Violence, and Suicidal thoughts

ernareads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Addiction