Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

18 reviews

summermc13's review

adventurous emotional funny medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Drug abuse, Suicide, and Death of parent

Moderate: Mental illness, Abandonment, Bullying, Addiction, and Emotional abuse

beccaj11's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

Great story with lots of unexpected twists and turns. I loved the characters although there isn’t a lot of character development except for maybe one or two of them. The plot really drives the book and it’s a great, original plot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Abandonment, Addiction, Toxic friendship, and Mental illness

Minor: Suicide and Murder

kimveach's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad 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

2.0

For every book that most people think is great, or in Amazon's opinion "the best book of the year", there has to be someone that didn't like it.  I'm that person.  I can understand why people enjoyed it.  It's easy to read and parts of it are very entertaining.  However, the undercurrent of violence that runs through it didn't work for me.   For me, it felt more like a Quentin Tarantino ("Once Upon a Time in Hollywood") or Coen Brothers ("Fargo") movie.  I can enjoy those sorts of movies since they are only a couple of hours, but this book took up too much of my time and left me unhappily unsettled.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Alcohol, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Confinement, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Suicide, and Violence

saraotoole's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Addiction

kkm0112's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring medium-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

4.0

This author has written two of my other favorite books (Rules of Civility and Gentleman in Moscow). It is long - about 600 pages - but a fantastic historical fiction set primarily in the 1950s. After being released from a work farm, 18-year old Emmett is ready to pick up his 8 year old brother and head west to start their lives anew. But he discovers two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the warden's trunk and have a different plan all together. It takes place over 10 days and told from multiple POVs. Normally I dislike POVs, but it was such a multi-layered story and you really got such a great perspective on all the characters. It's both wide and deep, so you have to be willing to dive in - but it's worth it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Addiction

agnesg's review against another edition

adventurous reflective tense fast-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Abandonment

Moderate: Addiction and Mental illness

reasek's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Death, and Addiction

jmiglus's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

Read based on my thorough enjoyment of A Gentleman in Moscow. This one is faster out of the gate (also being more familiar with mid century US history than I am with revolutionist Russia, I didn’t get sidetracked on looking up as many setting details). Overall loved the various viewpoints and the characters. Confused as to why some characters had their chapters in 1st person and some in 3rd. Also a couple characters who I’d have liked to hear more from. I do like a resolved ending, and this one left a lot up to the reader. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Violence and Addiction