Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks by Mackenzi Lee

22 reviews

alyssoid's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious 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

5.0

A phenomenal ending to a wonderful trilogy! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Self harm

Moderate: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Eating disorder, Alcohol, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Domestic abuse

casey_sunshine's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad 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? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Medical content

Moderate: Addiction, Blood, Death, Self harm, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Grief

Minor: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

lauralintunen's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Death of parent, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug use, Addiction, Suicide, and Self harm

Minor: Blood and Domestic abuse

maggies's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

5.0

This book felt like a therapy session, as secondary characters variably helped Adrian navigate his anxiety and OCD. It may be difficult to read, but I think was handled sensitively and beautifully. It may be my favorite of the stories in the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

Moderate: Addiction and Alcoholism

Minor: Homophobia

josieruby1's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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

5.0

I was scared to read this because I love Gentleman's and Lady's so much but this was beautiful and is probably now my favourite 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Violence, Suicide, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Child abuse and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Medical content, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexism

elephantshoes4's review

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide and Addiction

lauryngreen's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring fast-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

I cannot recommend this highly enough. I’m obsessed with books that are shameless in their representation, books where the characters are queer and disabled and Black and there’s no apology for the absolute cornucopia of human diversity. Adrian is a character I relate to very very deeply and many points of this book were hard to read but dear God it was worth it. Lee is a master of life after survival stories, and I am incredibly jealous of her talent. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Colonisation

Minor: Ableism, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Vomit

tri_lo_bite's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Blood, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Eating disorder

Minor: Addiction, Slavery, Sexism, Child abuse, and Suicide attempt

shmandy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny reflective sad 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 first book of the year and it's really trying to set the bar for the others to follow. What an absolutely wonderful end to a fantastic series.

Everything about this was so lovely and warm and real. All the familiar faces and references and my undying love for the Montague siblings. I just wanted to squish them all and make sure they were all okay.

I am a hard proponent of first-person POV being eradicated from my sight but Mackenzi Lee is the absolute exception to this rule. Being in Adrian's head was so well done. I felt his anxiety in the pit of my stomach the entire time. Her writing style is so incredible, Monty and Felicity and Adrian are all similar but different and it's so lovely to have had the chance to be inside each of their heads.

This was really just a warm hug of a book that also left me on the edge of my seat.

I highly recommend everyone read this series - mostly, for the joy that is Monty and then again getting to experience him trying to be a big brother at 39 years old. The humour is incredible and the scene-setting is so well done I always truly feel like I'm right inside the story.

An excellent start to 2022!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Chronic illness

kisahofswords13's review against another edition

adventurous funny inspiring fast-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

I love this book and this series. I felt like this was a very good depiction of obsessive disorders and you KNOW I love Monty and Felicity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Self harm

Minor: Child abuse, Dysphoria, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Physical abuse