Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Northranger by Rey Terciero, Bre Indigo

25 reviews

blastoise's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Homophobia, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide attempt and Racism

toonyballoony's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful 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? N/A

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism and Homophobia

Minor: Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Xenophobia, Cancer, Death of parent, and Animal death

mnerd63's review

dark emotional mysterious tense 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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Alcoholism, and Racism

Minor: Suicide

katievh's review against another edition

emotional mysterious fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Domestic abuse, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexism

Minor: Mental illness, Cancer, Death of parent, Animal death, and Suicide attempt

amberlfaris's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Alcoholism, and Death of parent

clarabooksit's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Racism, Homophobia, Mental illness, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Violence, Terminal illness, Cancer, and Sexism

Minor: Suicide attempt and Animal death

sglance9's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Homophobia, Emotional abuse, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Dementia

brookeisbusyreading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

So this might seem trivial, but I’m taking off half a star because it seemed like Henry lost his southern accent about halfway through. (I only noticed it because I live in South Carolina and I work in retail, so I hear a lot of the ‘southern drawl’.)

The art style, horror movie aspect, and romance between Cade and Henry are my favorite things about Northranger. That kiss scene was just so smooth! I’m not a big horror movie person, but I’ll admit I got swept up in the boys’ love for them. Their relationships flowed very well and the story had the right amount of opposition to it for what this story is.

Again, the art style is one of my favorite elements. The use of soft, curved lines reminds me a bit of Check, Please! - the hockey graphic novel series that’s also queer. BUT I like the warmer color scheme and using white and black around the scene blocks to indicate day or night. Very clever!

So, Northranger is a cute queer romance with darker vibes! Glad I checked it out!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Homophobia, Alcoholism, and Death of parent

lettuce_read's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Homophobia, and Racism

Moderate: Death of parent and Cancer

Minor: Suicide attempt

robinks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

What an interesting combination of horror and queer romance. The characters were so realistic! And Terciero is very skilled at slow revelations. Although I would’ve liked the ending to be more drawn out and filled with queer love, I was satisfied.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Grief, Death of parent, Violence, Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, and Misogyny

Moderate: Excrement, Classism, Animal death, Blood, Religious bigotry, Xenophobia, Cancer, Alcoholism, and Death

Minor: Suicide attempt, Murder, Hate crime, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, and Forced institutionalization