Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Scythe by Neal Shusterman

8 reviews

bessadams's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Blood, Physical abuse, Murder, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Self harm, Fire/Fire injury, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Gun violence, Body shaming, Death of parent, Bullying, and Alcohol

hales_1243's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Death, Self harm, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Murder, Physical abuse, Blood, Gaslighting, Racism, Child death, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Body horror, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, and Fatphobia

Minor: Vomit and Alcohol

rachel_ruesch's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Suicide, Alcohol, Violence, Torture, Mass/school shootings, Gore, Murder, and Death

alyssadavis's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Would the Thunderhead grieve our passing, I wonder? And if so, would it grieve as the child who has lost a parent, or as the parent who could not save a petulant child from its own poor choices?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Blood, Gun violence, Suicide, and Alcohol

azurae's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Murder

Minor: Alcohol, Body horror, Violence, Genocide, Gore, Suicide, Medical trauma, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Fire/Fire injury

sopherdopher's review against another edition

dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Murder, Suicide attempt, Body shaming, Physical abuse, and Mass/school shootings

Moderate: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, and Fatphobia

Minor: Alcohol and Religious bigotry

nicnevin's review against another edition

dark reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

3.5

Picked this up because death is sexy. 

This has challenged me greatly because I don't really know what to say. There are parts I like and some I don't. I couldn't care less about the romance and yet it is stitched together as vital to the plot. The world building is interesting but kinda vague and I want to discuss that a lot but I don't think this is the right place. It places a weird emphasis on race, like everyone really cares about their 23&Me results. 

I guess I want to read the rest, mostly to try and pin down what the point the author is trying to make. It is both too obvious and too obscured. There are screeds about how life was better when death was a thing, actually even though death... Still is a thing? 

Idk I need to parse this on my brain. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Medical trauma, Murder, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Child death, Medical content, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Self harm, Suicide, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Fatphobia, Torture, Violence, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Mass/school shootings

nebraskanwriter's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Grief, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, and Violence