Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith

9 reviews

vanesst's review

dark emotional hopeful sad 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: Infertility, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child death, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual content, and Alcohol

thetaylatrese's review

challenging emotional hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, and Murder

could be considered triggering if you struggle with any of these. amazing read but proceed with caution.

kjofalltrades's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

cyndi1966's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death and Infidelity

Minor: Child death, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

venetiana's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

This started out really interesting, then became flat, then some plot twists, and a really bad solution. 

The ending was absolutely not satisfying - not for the most obvious reason (I can definitely respect and appreciate that), but because it really didn't fit the rest of the plot. The story simply gets interrupted and yanked back into "real life", I guess.

I wanted to like this book so much and now I'm just sad and disappointed, like I've fallen for a ruse.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, and Stalking

Minor: Body horror, Drug use, Eating disorder, Infertility, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

ksgoetz's review

emotional mysterious slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Death, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

novellybritt's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-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

Oh boy, did this book make me emotional. It didn't completely break me like I thought it would but it definitely got me in my feels. It's a great example of how people can come into your lives for a short period of time and make an impression that lasts a lifetime. This is a slow burn book, the entirety of it lasting over one weekend, but it pulls on your heartstrings. You really get to know these two characters and seeing them help each other get through of a tough time is really beautiful. While I'm not a fan of the miscommunication trope, this one is done extremely well. A huge plot of this book is mental health with suicide attempts, thoughts, therapy and so on. I personally don't have any experience with this but I thought that it was well done and the author did a great job about highlighting a very important and sensitive topic.

If you love slow burns and books that focus heavily on characters, I'd highly recommend this. Again, please be warned of the sensitive topics this book discusses because with the volume it's mentioned, it could be extremely triggering for some.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcohol

adelinegrace's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infertility, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Minor: Trafficking and Alcohol

reneethebookbird's review against another edition

hopeful sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Alcohol