Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

276 reviews

eliran's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Alcohol, Drug use, Alcoholism, Death, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Blood, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Infidelity

k_vira's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Gun violence, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Murder, Violence, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Addiction

Minor: Death and Death of parent

_viv's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Violence, and Grief

isabellen19's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-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

4.0

So there were parts of this book that were just so beautiful to read and made me very excited to pick the book back up,

basically everything before he came back from Vegas was perfection

. I think the second half of the book definitely could have used some more editing, as near the end I found myself just wanting to be done with the book. The casual racism and

Theo’s weird obsession with Pippa

throughout also threw me off and made me like the book less. However, I think my favorite part of the book was the recurring theme of the love for objects and what this means.

Theo’s mom was discussing how much more upsetting it is to lose an object rather than a person, and I think it was really interesting foreshadowing into Theo losing both his favorite person and his favorite object. The drug use made sense, but at times was excessive,

and made me wonder how much of the book I could trust (although an unreliable narrator can be fun). Overall this book was written beautifully and made me think a lot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Alcohol, Death of parent, Alcoholism, and Addiction

nikelback's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Murder

rachel_juliane's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Addiction, Alcohol, and Suicide

Moderate: Death of parent and Death

elenab's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Drug use, Drug abuse, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Homophobia, Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Suicide attempt

Minor: Death and Toxic friendship

mlovesbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

Isn't everything worthwhile a gamble? Can't good come around sometimes through some strange backdoor?

It grew on me as I listened.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, and Alcohol

Moderate: Violence, Gun violence, and Death of parent

johndenver's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Vomit, Drug abuse, Blood, Murder, Death of parent, Body horror, Death, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Grief, Drug use, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Fire/Fire injury, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Homophobia

lyndis8377's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Gun violence, Drug use, Death of parent, Addiction, Blood, Drug abuse, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Hate crime, Vomit, Child abuse, and Self harm