Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Black Iris by Elliot Wake

7 reviews

medini_l's review against another edition

dark slow-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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Bullying, Drug abuse, Blood, Suicide, Death of parent, Homophobia, Mental illness, Violence, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, and Gun violence

amandamarieger's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

To say this was dark is an understatement. I think I’m going to need some time to process. I will say though - it’s more of a thriller than I realized, and I didn’t figure that out until about 30% of the way through… so then I needed to know how it ended even though I wasn’t really enjoying the book. My relatively high rating is mostly for the writing. Wake writes BEAUTIFULLY. I could feel everything. I just didn’t love the plot that was formed with the words, lol. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Biphobia, Violence, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Stalking, Lesbophobia, Bullying, Blood, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Sexual content, Mental illness, Gun violence, Addiction, Outing, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, and Drug use

SO. MANY. CONTENT. WARNINGS.

nicolescottwv's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Drug abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, and Suicide

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Rape, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Minor: Grief and Stalking

loganskies's review

dark emotional mysterious tense

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, and Homophobia

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Sexual content, and Violence

srr275's review

dark 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Death of parent, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Stalking

s3lin's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Biphobia, Bullying, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, and Gore

Moderate: Alcoholism and Gaslighting

karoureads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

“Two girls, cherry-mouthed, glitter-lashed, our skin luminous with moonlight and sweat, making out beneath pennants that still shivered with the afternoon’s boy bravado.”

This book blowed my mind every five minutes. Just when you think you know whats happening, everything changes and you find out about more stuff. I loved every single thing about this book: the no-redemption arc, the way it treats mental illnes, drugs, lgbt, the romantic and sexual relationships, the blurred lines between friendship and romantic love and how dark and twisted everything was. This books is dark and painful and is pure revenge. Laney is an anti-hero and I loved reading every thing she did and felt and think.

“Change isn’t peaceful. Change is violent, savage, cruel”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Bullying, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship