Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton

79 reviews

bloomparker's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-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

4.5

Jesus Christ.
Great book.💀
I cannot physically write my opinion, just check the TW and if u like what u see READ!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

sunray_sunburn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I am ASHAMED to have enjoyed this book as much as I did. I will have to answer for my sins later, but for now I will give you my review of this dark dark dark (did I mention this is very dark) book. 

I will not recommend this book openly to anyone. Please please please know what you are getting into. Read the trigger warnings and then read them again. I have not read anything so graphic in the gore and rape as is in this book. It was not the best writing in the world, but it did scratch an itch - that I am very ashamed to have - and I couldn't put it down (unless I couldn't stomach it anymore for the day). The last 10% is very triggering and you should be of sound mind to get through it. 

The romance/smut aspect of this book: the smut is very good (oh god I really am going to hell). My dear dear cousin summed it up beautifully, "if you have ever had a rape fantasy, then you will like this book." I feel like that is a great warning for the spice in this book. THE GUN SCENE!!! Don't read or listen to this in public because damn, I thought I had a good smut in public poker face but I was proved so wrong. 

Now I have to decide if I will read the next book, not because the story isn't compelling, but because I have to decide if I want to be the person I will be when I am done with it. 

Side note: I will not be discussing any of my feeling about this with anyone who has not read the book since they are my only safe space in this category lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

chainsiren's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

sofial1's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

nyx_999's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-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

4.5

Something inexplicably dark arises in my chest. It’s black and evil and cruel. Dangerous, even.
All I want to do is break her. Shatter her into pieces. And then arrange those pieces to fit against my own. I don’t care if they don’t fit—I’ll fucking make them.

I've heard a lot about this masterpiece. Some love it, some don't. And some can't bcs it was just too dark. I was warned and told to check the tw/cw which I did and it was clear that this would be high on the list of darkest rom books I ever read. This book definitely showed me where my boundaries truly are. This book is dark. It made me question myself multiple times. I learned things about myself idk if I even wanted to know but I do now.

“Zade,” he whispers against my lips. “That’s the only name that will ever leave your lips from now on, especially when you’re making that little pussy feel good. And when I’m making that pussy feel good, then you can call me God.”

It's definitely not for everyone and I can see why many people on booktok said they had to dnf.

“You look beautiful,” I say, cutting off her continued muttering and rendering her silent. Subtly, she glances over her shoulder at me, but doesn’t acknowledge my words.
“So, not only do you only fear me in the daylight, but you only love me when I’m making you come.”
That gets her attention. She whips around, fire in her eyes as she spits, “I don’t love you.”
“Not yet,” I counter, topping it off with a grin. Her eyes narrow into thin slits.

This book doesn't just mention dark topics it goes deeper into the topics than any book I read before. At first I thought this might be a reason for me to dnf but oddly I turned out to like it.

“You can’t escape me, little mouse. I will always find you.”

This book had me in its clutches for a good 3 days and I'm excited to start the second book. I already miss Zady and Addie💕.

Please check out the tw/cw maybe watch a few edits on tiktok to get a feel of what to expect and enjoy 💀✨️

“Are you ready to be eaten?”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, and Alcohol

Minor: Infidelity, Sexism, and Death of parent

book_s1ut's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense 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

4.5

The book ended on a huge cliffhanger of her kidnapping.. WHAT!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

kat1105's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

mb22's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism and Infidelity

Minor: Vomit

wattacukor's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

Stars: 5
Song: You Put a Spell on Me -Austin Giorgio

Oh my fucking god.

What the fuck did I read?

And why did I enjoy it?

Okay, so I think we all know that this is a dark and twisted book with many, many, many trigger warnings. Did we get that? Cool

Now, I gave it 5 stars because I enjoyed it emersly. Do you know the phase of catastrophe tourism? When you slow down so you can see what happened in a car crash, or watch a movie that you know is gonna be awful but that is why it's so fun. That's this book to me.

The writing wasn't the best, and it was kinda sloppy in some places, and the story had some faults too, but it was too interesting and shocking for those things to affect my rating.

I am not writing spoilers, but I will you the smut..the smut is heavenly. Be aware there is non-con, but it's wrapped up in a way where it is forced, but by the end (or more like the middle) we actually enjoy it. It's like BDSM just without the safe word, which is kind of offputting, but the inner monologue helps a lot.

And I swear, the scene that I had my jaw on the floor, that I was the most shocked about... was the fucking <spoilers> gun scene. Maybe I haven't read enough dark romances but when I realised that he will fuck her with his gun... </spoilers> my jaw was on the floor.

I am really interested in the next instalment.

I am also scared, what kind of person I am for loving this book this much?

Well..we will e after I traumatise myself with the second book.

xoxo

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Trafficking, Stalking, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Murder

valentinaambrosius's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Trafficking, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Alcoholism and Alcohol

Minor: Body horror