Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao

18 reviews

kkreads's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Rape, Physical abuse, Ableism, Misogyny, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism

amandasiino's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Violence, Alcoholism, Kidnapping, Trafficking, Sexism, and Torture

ncain's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Rape, Trafficking, Classism, and Misogyny

Minor: Torture, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse

calster's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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? No

3.0

Beautiful writing, devastating story, unsatisfying ending 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Kidnapping, Domestic abuse, Rape, Physical abuse, Violence, Trafficking, Sexism, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Death of parent and Drug use

Minor: Alcoholism

mandkips's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Trafficking, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Ableism and Alcoholism

Minor: Racism

zombiezami's review against another edition

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

I loved the descriptive writing style, and I loved Poornima and Savitha as characters.  It's hard for me to rate this because it's almost unrelentingly sad. The main characters were so resilient, but I'm so sad that they had to be. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Grief, Infertility, and Self harm

Minor: Child death and Racism

Colorism

margaretrose's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

4.0

A heart-wrenching story with so many almost-could-be-true elements that you ache for the characters as you read.

Rao really makes you choose your own ending, as she gives you pieces of the setting and atmosphere that are so similar that make you believe that it is possible that it actually will turn out ok for Savitha and Poornima. It still isn't definite closure, you still end the book unsure that they are back together. I'm still asking the question: will they be ok?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Trafficking, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Adult/minor relationship, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Ableism, Drug use, and Rape

internationalreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, and Violence

cassiekenedy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, and Trafficking

Minor: Alcoholism

judith_s's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-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? N/A

4.25

Extremely dark, but beautifully written. Was originally to rate this a 4.5 but had to lower it slightly because, that ending?! I just feel like I went through too much with Poornima and Savitha to not have at least some semblance of closure.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual assault, Rape, Violence, Trafficking, Sexual violence, and Sexism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Death of parent

Minor: Abortion