Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Hitze by Raven Leilani

42 reviews

bouebooks's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

macknificent's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

The description for this book makes it sound like a thriller, if that is what you are looking for you will be disappointed. 

This is a story about black girls, in white suburbs, who grew up on Tumblr and surrounded by trauma. We are shown who those girls become when they refuse to wear the mask of The Strong Black Woman because it is too restricting and nobody showed them how to adjust for their own measurements. 

I loved this book, it was refreshing to see a black woman in the role of Sad Girl and the writing was beautiful. Leilani deserves her flowers on this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Abortion, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Infertility, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

sib_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Infidelity, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Infertility, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Murder, Abandonment, and Alcohol

llj's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Abortion, and Alcohol

rachel_here's review against another edition

reflective slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Racism, Sexual content, Police brutality, and Alcohol

Moderate: Abortion

bethanstanleyy's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Miscarriage, Racism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Classism

gabb_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Drug abuse, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Abortion, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death and Infertility

ayannamaslog's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

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

1.5

I really wanted to like this book after seeing the reviews. I found it painful to read, with long sentences, endless metaphors and no real plot going on. I personally don’t enjoy this type of writing style and even though it’s only 220 or so pages it felt like the book was loooong. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Racial slurs, Racism, Abortion, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Miscarriage, Police brutality, Medical content, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death

nialiversuch's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and Classism

meowkira's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Police brutality, Medical content, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol