Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Prison Healer - Die Schattenheilerin by Lynette Noni

94 reviews

mrobin14's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

2.0

The writing at times is very immature. Often thoughts would be scattered paragraphs away from where it started, or events would become repetitively told to the reader within the same chapters. Some events that transpired don’t make sense to have been included, it feels like they were cheap shots at making a “diverse” and “deep” cast. Pages were clearly taken from Lemony Snicketts writing in silly chapter set ups, but it just makes it feel like a poorly written YA novel. Feel as though the story idea is good, but needed a more stern publisher to steer it in the right direction. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Blood, Death of parent, Dementia, Gore, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, and Grief

Moderate: Rape, Police brutality, Physical abuse, War, Violence, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, Self harm, and Suicide

artsycupcake's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

The twist at the end of this book sold absolutely everything for me.

I already loved the aspect of a prison healer being just and doing whatever it took to survive but to find out this is a villain origin story is the best thing I could have found out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Blood, Self harm, Body shaming, Child abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, and Body horror

tegzy95's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Murder, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Self harm, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Torture, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Addiction, and Confinement

evebananas's review against another edition

dark slow-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? It's complicated

2.75

The first half was pretty good, with all the world building and whatnot. But the whole middle- probably from 40% to 85% through- was boring. The dialogue was so boring and predictable and felt very YA. The last ten percent or so was just an info dump:

jaren is the prince, Naari is his guard, and Kiva has magic to conveniently save Tipp. Oh and wait- she’s actually the rebel queens daughter!! Which makes no sense, because she acted like Tilda was a stranger the entire time.

I’m frustrated with the ending. The whole book felt very very YA and I wasn’t expecting it. Maybe if I were 13 I’d like it better.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Medical content, and Blood

Moderate: Vomit, Death, Confinement, Drug abuse, and Addiction

hrubelle's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.25

THE ENDING WOW. The first half was a little boring ngl but near the end, I couldn't stop reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Violence, and Torture

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Addiction

nxyzarorealms's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-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

4.5

Omg the end is crazy, i don't know what to believe I am literally starting the second book rn

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Addiction, Drug use, Drug abuse, Violence, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Grief, Rape, Sexual assault, and Self harm

mmari's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Cliffhanger un po' prevedibile e world building semplice, adatto a lettori fantasy neofiti. Molto carina la storia e ben scritto

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Murder, Violence, and Death

Minor: Addiction, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Sexual harassment, and Torture

karirahlf's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Rape, and Self harm

hollyrebecca's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

A four elements, trials based fantasy story with a budding romance between the main character and the new prisoner (albeit reluctantly). Or so it seems! I predicted some of the twists in this but

the last page left me shook!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Torture, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Addiction, Rape, and Suicide attempt

yennn's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

1.0

 I don't understand the reviews. I struggled to get through this.

The characters...the main character was SO annoying and oblivious I was rolling my eyes so far back into my head. The male lead had potential but fell flat and left no lasting impression on me. The side characters though, now THEY were interesting. Shout out to Tipp and Mott for being MVPs and for Naari for staying aloof and cool though it all.

The writing was so repetitive I felt crazy, and so pointlessly descriptive I started skim reading.

And the plot was...so predictable, yet barely together. The way this book ended, and the character motivations and next steps of the plot...I just don't think I have it in me to finish this trilogy. I was not connected at any point to anything. Except maybe the princess and her girlfriend (one sentence in the whole book about this. It's not a spoiler). 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Abandonment