Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

This Town Sleeps by Dennis E. Staples

6 reviews

cph3lps's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Addiction

forrestalexander's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Violence, Sexual content, and Grief

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Grief, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Bullying, Colonisation, Rape, and Suicidal thoughts

drchronicallyreading's review

emotional reflective sad slow-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

While I enjoyed this book, I wish it would have had more of a build overall. The main character was really well developed. Maybe I’m too used to reading 400 page books now!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, and Homophobia

yavin_iv's review

emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• 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: Alcoholism and Child death

Moderate: Addiction, Physical abuse, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Sexual assault, Rape, and Miscarriage

annalisaely's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

Not my personal cup of tea. I would place it outside of genre fiction entirely, actually, rather than being a mystery with romance elements, and call it the illusive "literary fiction" where the plot is pointless but the the characters are also more irritating and depressing than interesting and lovable (I don't mind a plotless book if I love the characters). It reminds me a lot of the books I was assigned to read in school, and I actually think it would be a good replacement for people who actually like those books, because I know they exist, because it is by an Indigenous person instead of a white one and has gay rep.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Alcoholism, and Addiction

Moderate: Drug use, Grief, Racism, Sexual content, and Violence

There is also gang violence, specifically.