Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Paper Princess by Erin Watt

18 reviews

_bobatea_'s review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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“These Royals will ruin you”
Has never been such a truer statement;-;

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Classism

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Incest, Infidelity, Suicide

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Kidnapping

tobyw's review against another edition

3.5

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It's fun, horny, trashy, and stupid. What more could you want? To be honest, it's not about what it's missing... I would prefer it with a few choice scenes sanded off, like Easton casually threatening to rape Ella, the whole situation with Callum at the strip club, and the cage-dancing seventeen year olds. But I doubt any teenagers are likely to treat this like a handbook; I certainly didn't.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Minor: Addiction

autumnwitch14's review

3.25

emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment

Minor: Cancer, Suicide, Violence, Injury/Injury detail

acornfel's review

4.0

dark funny fast-paced

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For the genre and the subject matter this book delivers exactly what you'd expect from a gossip girl type novel with some spice. It has a few moments that feel really awkward pacing wise, but overall it was fun to read and it was really easy to just sit in the world of this book and not get distracted or tired of reading it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer

venturajai31's review against another edition

4.0

mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Ok, had I known the MCs would be in high school, not sure I would’ve read it. That being said, once I got over that surprise, it was actually pretty good. I enjoyed this book a lot and found myself covering the next page so I didn’t jump ahead. I’m interested in the reading the other BUT be warned, their story does NOT END in this book. I was so bummed that I had another two books before it changed POV (in a five book series?! ughhh) but I will read it because I literally can’t not read them after the ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship

Moderate: Addiction, Death of parent

goldfish779's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I smelled something fishy on Brooke when Gideon acted weird when he came home and I could not be more wrong. She was a bitch grouping up with Dinah just for Royal's money. I think she blackmailed Gideon and Reed (I am afraid she might seuxally assulted them as well) behind Callum's back. Gideon and Reed kept it between themselves to protect everyone else in the house. That last chapter freaking crushed me.

Honestly I love this book because I live for drama and good angst. It gave me the impression of Gossip Girls playing on CW.

Heat: 🔥

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual assault

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death of parent

dkgreads's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Solid bully romance. Thought the character development was on point. The characters felt real and complex. Definitely enjoyed the writing style. Mild in the spice department, but the tension was good. Definitely had my suspicions about the situation at the end. Will be continuing this set for sure.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Sexual content, Violence, Death of parent, Alcohol

Minor: Cancer, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Suicide

notsurewhattosay's review against another edition

3.75

emotional hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment

norab99's review against another edition

4.25

emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Alcohol

paulaks's review

2.0

funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Soooo this one is complicated... The first half was a decent 4 star reading with some problematic and stereotypical scenes but nothing really bad. Then the second half came and it was just hot garbage. It seemed like the love interest and the MC were talking two different languages because they never understood the other ones problem. The "spicy" scenes made me cringe so bad and the only thing that kept me reading was the wattpad like writing. I wanted to like it so bad but I couldn't overlook some of the problems the book has. Overall the plot was fine and could have developed great but the execution was horrible. The addictive writing, some funny jokes, Easton (personal favourite) and the first half definitely push the rating for me but it just doesn't deserve the 3 stars. If you are in a reading slump and still have interest, go for it. 
Now to the ending (spoiler free): The ending was so unneccesary. Without giving it away, they can technically start from scratch in the next book. And without any lessons to take away I ask myself: Why did they write this book? (Probably so i could write this passionately written review ;))

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment

Minor: Addiction, Bullying, Death of parent, Alcohol