Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Birthday Girl by Penelope Douglas

31 reviews

yasaman's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, and Sexual content

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Vomit

mproper1's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Physical abuse, Violence, Gaslighting, Classism, Alcohol, Death, Domestic abuse, Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, Grief, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Sexism, and Toxic friendship

mishasbooks's review against another edition

relaxing medium-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, and Alcohol

kotashomelibrary's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Cursing, Grief, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Child abuse, and Alcohol

cpachet's review against another edition

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

3.5

The spice is spicy and the burn is slow in this age-gap, forbidden romance. I vacillated between finding FMC Jordan likeable and finding her vapid. I hate the old “she’s not like other girls” go to, but there’s nothing to back that up. She loves the 80s. Ok, and…that was it. Douglas fails to flesh out anything else about her. The recurring theme of Jordan getting treated poorly by everyone in her life (including her boundary-less sister who is essentially only there to be in her court) is the main driver of her life choices. It made me so mad that she had zero friends but the why was never explored (she’s in college - the place where people make friends after they realize their high school friends suck). MMC Pike embodies the grumpy older guy and is fine, I guess. He’s clean, he has tattoos, terrible taste in women. The timeline of the book is wild - feels like months pass based on weather, volume of activity, etc, but it’s apparently only weeks. Lots of will they won’t they, forgiveness, tension. I sailed through it and when the spice hit, it was worth some of the flaws.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Violence

frederh's review against another edition

funny sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Toxic relationship and Alcohol

The female main character just turns 19 at the beginning of the book. There is a twenty year age gap.

art_books_chemistry's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Sexual content, Cursing, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Pregnancy, Sexism, Classism, Car accident, and Abandonment

brittneydye19's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content

Minor: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, Bullying, Gaslighting, and Physical abuse

frantically's review against another edition

challenging emotional fast-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

2.5

reading an age gap romance where the fmc (19) is younger than me (20) was certainly an experience

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Physical abuse

bxcvi's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Alcohol, Toxic relationship, and Abandonment