Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

31 reviews

eagoldberg's review

emotional funny 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Suicide, Animal cruelty, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug use, Death of parent, Body shaming, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Vomit, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Death

uriah's review against another edition

4.0

more books about messy queer people with abandonment issues please! i love representation!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Sexual content, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

stardust_heidi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

What the fuck did I just read?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Vomit, Blood, Body horror, Alcohol, Gore, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Animal death, Infidelity, and Suicide

stacy837's review

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Animal death, Death of parent, Grief, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Terminal illness, and Cursing

Minor: Abortion

lennybiird's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Animal death, and Alcoholism

oliverigotti's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.5

this was recommended after i read “everyone in this room will someday be dead.” 
pretty good, but the characters felt a little off to me, i don’t know what it was. i feel like they just got in their own ways a bit too much, if that’s even a valid criticism. this book did accurately describe how terrible florida is. 
huge word of warning, this book is super gory, not for those with weak stomachs

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death of parent, Gore, Animal death, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Blood, and Sexual content

ecn's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

2.75

Nothing about this story was resolved and not in a fun way. So much and so little happened that it dragged on. Easily could have been half the length. I wanted to know SO much more about every character and we were given nothing. I felt like i was a therapist sitting with a client trying to help them organize their stories and getting nowhere. The flashbacks were disjointed and only added to the trauma and grief that ran through everything but never fulling etching into to the main character’s personality, only explaining why she’s shut off.
The ending also seemed extremely abrupt. Too much was trying to be resolved in a matter of DAYS and the characters glossed over so much and so much was implied that it seemed impossible and unrealistic for them to be how things would unfold.
This book had so much promise but ended up falling so flat. I wanted more for and of every character but wasn’t given a fraction (felt very indicative of how they were treated I’m sure - maybe it’s stylistic).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual content, Pedophilia, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Blood, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Cancer, Vomit, Violence, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Abandonment, Pregnancy, Homophobia, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Death, and Alcohol

lizzie_r's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-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: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Gore, and Suicide

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual content, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, and Animal death

Minor: Cancer

aguattery's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-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

2.5

I didn't really enjoy reading this. I know at least part of it is because of the audio book format. The narrator trailed off on a lot of sentences so I had to guess what was being said. Also, the format of the book with subsections within the chapters didn't translate well to audiobook. I had a hard time following the different timelines. It wasn't even a fun read so I wouldn't give the physical book a chance. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Suicide, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism

darkmattersoybean's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Death of parent, Gore, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Death