Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

28 reviews

a_wren_that_reads's review

dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-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: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Pregnancy and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Rape, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Vomit, Abortion, and Sexual harassment

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 cruelty, Animal death, Suicide, and Alcohol

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

gellyreads's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Infidelity, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual content

emma_ekb's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful 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

4.25

i’m surprised by how much i liked it tbh. definitely would recommend to fans of “fun home” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual content

nilescrane'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 cruelty and Animal death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Sexual content, and Alcohol

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

emzireads's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Infidelity, Blood, Death of parent, and Alcohol

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

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

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: Alcoholism, Gore, Suicide, Death of parent, and Alcohol

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

Minor: Cancer