Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

All of Us Villains by C.L. Herman, Amanda Foody

46 reviews

maresuju's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Classism, Alcohol, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Suicide, and Toxic friendship

evanreads's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Child abuse, Gore, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Body horror, Cursing, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Vomit, Alcohol, and Eating disorder

kitkat6678's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Death, Murder, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Alcohol, and Child abuse

Minor: Toxic friendship and Alcoholism

salixia_the_elixir's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Alcohol, Gore, Alcoholism, Blood, and Child death

laguerrelewis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-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

This book is complicated, for me. It has aspects I really enjoy, specially one of the protagonists and her storyline. However, the quality is incredibly uneven, swinging from legitimately complex and interesting narrative to the most trope-filled generalized characterization and plot beats I’ve encountered (A character literally points out that there’s “only one bed” in a particularly groan-worthy romantic subplot). Characters that are interesting get strong-armed into changing their behavior and motivations whenever the plot demands, showing the hand of the author plainly. This book is fine for teen readers and fans of #booktok, but it left me wanting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Gore, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, and Violence

brianneh's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Bullying, Blood, Grief, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Alcohol

iandthebooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Blood, and Child death

Moderate: Alcohol and Child abuse

Minor: Death of parent

aformeracceleratedreader's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

Does this count as dark academia? If so, it's the only dark academia one I actually like. If not and it's more of just a straight up fantasy, it's still super good. I need to listen to the second book. It's a great teen battle royale kind of premise with similarities to the hunger games last book of the opponents banding together to want to break the system so it stops feeding on the lives of children. Really like Alistair's character and Isobel's character. Not the biggest fan of Briony and generally like Gavin as well. This is told in multiple POVs so if that's not your thing, maybe skip. But I want to know how everything ends.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Violence, Alcohol, Bullying, Cursing, Death, and Murder

norwegianforestreader's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Abandonment, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Vomit, Child death, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Self harm, Alcohol, Death, Emotional abuse, and Grief

ib31's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

It is a well-written book that follows characters who all are in the morally grey zone.
The concept of the story and the characters keep the readers busy and the plottwists create suspense.
I liked that the book has a dark tone and does not sugarcoat anything.
The closer I got to the end of the book the plot twists and the story kept on going and I was trapped in a state of suspense and shock. The book makes you realize you can’t trust anyone because everyone is capable of betraying each other.

All in all, I can not wait for the next book, which hopefully explores the characters and the story even more.

I liked that the story itself was very brutal and that it was expanded with the help of fairy tales and family stories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse and Toxic relationship

Minor: Alcohol and Alcoholism