Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

69 reviews

momloves2read's review

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Addiction and Emotional abuse

Minor: Alcoholism and Miscarriage

abbyjme's review

hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

Going into this book, I felt the first few chapters real little slow, but it was all worth it for the way that I fell in love with all of the main characters. I truly admired how the story explored parenting and how the effects of our upbringing last a lifetime. Not even just parenting, but how literature can raise a child. 

I saw the review VE Schwab left for this book and I could agree more “ Clever,dark, and hopeful—a love letter to reading, and the power that childhood stories have over as long after we’ve grown up”

I’m not gonna spoil anything but let’s just say I was happy scream crying while reading the last few chapters.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical trauma, and Abortion

boop123's review

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, and Grief

Minor: Miscarriage and Pedophilia

kencil's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Drug use

sustainably_lucia's review

hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

I really enjoyed the whimsical nature of this book. It addresses some heavy topics with a layer of hope, love, and support around them. It is a beautiful story of found family and finding gratitude for our past, even though it sucked at the time. There were a few things that were overly simplified but I didn’t feel that it detracted from the overall story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Chronic illness, and Death of parent

gogglor's review

hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing 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? It's complicated

3.75

Been looking for something like House on the Cerulean Sea that doesn’t turn into a Hallmark movie, and this is it. Took a really long time to get going and it did sometimes veer into sappy, but on the whole it was a very sweet book and I enjoyed reading it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, and Grief

Minor: Alcoholism and Pedophilia

kpflea's review

adventurous emotional funny inspiring fast-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? No

5.0

LOVED this book. Emotional, heart-pounding, romantic, exciting; there are not enough words in my dictionary to describe the feelings this book gave me. MUST READ!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Miscarriage

notbrhymes's review

emotional hopeful

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

5.0

I cried my way through this book.
What a beautiful, beautiful story brimming with love and whimsy and so much humanity. My heart was broken and repaired multiple times throughout this novel and I think it is such a feat when an author can accomplish that while also having an otherwise interesting story. 
I read this in one sitting and I couldn’t be happier that I decided to ignore the other books that I had due back to the library much sooner & I picked this one up instead.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Cancer

peytonr's review

emotional hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Homophobia, Miscarriage, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Homophobia, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

jangeliquereads's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, and Miscarriage