Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

True Story by Kate Reed Petty

7 reviews

buplupblup's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, Gore, Alcoholism, Addiction, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Drug abuse

b8by_drxgon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Addiction, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, and Torture

onion's review

challenging dark emotional 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Emotional abuse, Violence, Sexism, Stalking, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Excrement, Panic attacks/disorders, and Physical abuse

Minor: Car accident and Drug use

lillicharlotte9's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-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

4.0

Sehr düster, sehr verwickelt, man weiß nicht so richtig, wo es langgeht, die Charaktere haben alle einen Schuss und das Ende hat mich verwirrt, dann überrascht und schließlich irgendwie befriedigt zurückgelassen, da es relativ offen gehalten wird und dadurch gut ist. Die Menschen sind vielschichtig und nachvollziehbar und der Stil ist teilweise experimentell. Man hat es schnell gelesen, aber man denkt schon noch eine Weile darüber nach. Alles in allem ein wirklich empfehlenswertes Buch.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual assault, Self harm, Misogyny, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Sexism, and Rape

lowri_'s review against another edition

tense fast-paced

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

5.0

“…I don’t think you ever really overcome adversity. I think you just figure out how to carry it along with you and continue on your way”

I did not expect this to be so good since I bought it blindly along with two other (meh) novels.

I’m a whore for writing styles and how they fit the story. This didn’t only deliver but smashed it. So so good and enjoyable even though it deals with some difficult and very visceral images and themes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

cko's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Body horror, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, and Blood

Minor: Suicide and Self harm

tashadandelion's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I'm having a very "what did I just read?" reaction to this novel. Not because different formats are used to tell the story (interview transcriptions, screenplays, emails, 2nd person present tense narration mixed with straight-forward limited first person past tense), but because I couldn't feel the disparate plot lines coming together until the very end, and at that point I wasn't sure if it worked for me. I'm grateful the author gives us answers, but I didn't come away as satisfied as I expected to feel after getting those answers. The pages turn quickly -- the writing is clean and engaging -- so I did get enjoyment from my time spent with this book. I just feel my jury went out to deliberate over the effectiveness of its structure and never came back. Though Alice's story of a high school incident gone terribly wrong is supposed to be the heart of the story, I felt like Nick's alcoholic spiral was far more compelling in the end, because his character was somehow more immediate in its suffering. As for the horror elements, I was left scratching my head over

Nick's encounter with the hooded men at the cabin (was that real? hallucination?)

but was blown away by the horror of

what Q had put Alice through and was hoping to follow up on through Nick's access to her. SHUDDER!! I also particularly enjoyed Nick's (but really Alice's imagination's) impulsive solution to that problem. It had a "The Lovely Bones meets brutal NYC" feel to it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship