Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks

75 reviews

sina4books's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Mental illness, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Eating disorder, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Homophobia, Rape, Fatphobia, and Misogyny

vickisharp19's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

4.0

While I could not put this book down (I finished reading it in about 8 hours), I can’t help but wonder, like many other reviews, if this “diary” was fake. It seems to me that this book was geared towards teens to scare them into not trying drugs. This book spans abut a year and a half, and she was in a complete downward spiral. I personally feel this book read as a true fiction book and that the events described did not happen this fast, especially since the main character specified she only tried “hard” drugs a handful of times. Because of this, I do believe the dates were sped up at the very least. 

Regardless, a very captivating and quick read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Addiction

Moderate: Sexual assault

lildookz's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Eating disorder, Grief, Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Abandonment, Death, Drug abuse, and Suicide

lilacwhisker's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Eating disorder, Addiction, and Suicide

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcohol and Abortion

chemical_crash's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Vomit, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Abortion, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Self harm, Trafficking, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Grief, Rape, and Sexual assault

hoffmann's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

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

0.5

Literally the worst book I’ve ever read. Please read ANYTHING else. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Addiction, and Drug use

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Homophobia and Ableism

nvi's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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

3.25

The fact that it's not verified whether it is an actual diary or a fictional piece of work makes it a little less "shocking", compared to if it was real. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Addiction, Death, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Toxic friendship

Minor: Homophobia

addyson_raelynn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I don’t really have a lot of words to describe my thoughts on this book yet. But I did thoroughly enjoy my time reading it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, and Rape

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Grief

Minor: Abortion

swearwords's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Oh my god this book is probably one of my new favorites. Usually I'm the kind of person who reads a quick meet cute rom-com but this book intrigued me when I saw it on the banned books table at Barnes and Noble, and sucked me in deeper when I saw it was in a diary format. There's something so much more intimate about it being a diary that also left an air of mystery since there were things being left out and background information we weren't told about. Despite the ending of this book, I love the message it has and the power of the story. It was a realistic ending and the main character's multiple relapses with drug abuse just shows that this isn't a quick detour on her road to happiness, it consumed her life. From the lack of updates in the journal to the shorter entries, this book did such a heartbreaking but breathtaking job of depicting drug addition in teens.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Addiction, Sexual assault, Death, and Eating disorder

jaydemccurry's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, and Rape

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Death, and Vomit