Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair

18 reviews

yarisbooksandbevs's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

3.5

Doing the tandem is so much better than reading this alone. I still fine Persephone a bit annoying sometimes but the Hades pov helps balance it out

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Alcohol, Confinement, Cursing, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Sexual assault and Addiction

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Mental illness

sierrabowers's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I thought this was a great mix of Greek mythology and modern fiction, but at times it did get predictable and cringe. If you read Percy Jackson as a kid and now like ACOTAR… I would recommend! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Death, Gaslighting, Alcoholism, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Abandonment, Alcohol, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Grief, Sexual assault, Confinement, and Sexual content

littlered22's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-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? It's complicated

3.75

I really liked the characters and I want to see how their story develops 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Bullying

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Sexual assault

tamaraloraine89's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

slow start but heated right up to sizzling. I wasn't sure I'd like it in the beginning but quickly became hooked and couldn't put it down

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Addiction, and Sexual harassment

puck_jay's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

1.0

Not for me. Good hate-listen tho

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Death, Religious bigotry, Child abuse, Addiction, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Cursing, Misogyny, Alcoholism, Sexual assault, and Torture

rchulin1's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Sexual assault, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Classism, Physical abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Torture

abikale's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

4.0

Loved Hades. Wasn’t so sure about some of the female characters who seemed quite shallow at first but they weren’t bad and I did prefer them as we got into the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Drug abuse, Sexual harassment, Addiction, and Alcoholism

sonatica's review against another edition

I generally like the idea of reteölings of the Persephone & Hades Myth in new ways, but this just wasn't for me. It felt like reading fanfiction (which can be good, obviously!) to me. One obvious trope was chasing another and it felt so predictable.
But I could've looked past that for a casual read.
However, the way he speaks to her after one of the spicier scenes around the halfway point of the book completely threw me off.
I like dark romance and I can look past toxic behaviour in fantasy if it's not glorified too much, but him saying

"I have been inside you, and you will never be able to forget that." or something along those lines

after she made clear that she didn't want to continue and felt conflicted, felt so wrong and disgusting that I just can't go on.

Mind-reading or lies-tasting or whatever doesn't save that for me either.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, and Sexual assault

Minor: Medical content, Alcoholism, Terminal illness, Infidelity, and Addiction

I feel like it's worth mentioning that this book features a scene in which two characters' drinks get drugged in a party-setting, for those who may want to avoid that sort of content.

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Child death, Gore, Infidelity, Addiction, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Alcohol, Confinement, Death, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

xapoptosisx's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

4.5

I actually really enjoyed this I think the world is really cool and the way the characters are written there's actually alot of depth to them and I ended up liking alot of them. I will say the pacing was kinda weird and confusing in some bits but it was still good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Alcohol

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Sexual assault, Terminal illness, War, Vomit, Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Sexual harassment, and Death