Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier

7 reviews

toofondofbooks_'s review

dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

This book...I think it was beautiful and frustrating, uncomfortable and thought provoking, sweet and funny with rough edges. It reminded me a lot of Juno if Juno had been a lot darker. There were some plot aspects that irked the shit out of me but the writing was genuinely really brilliant while maintaining simplicity. This little book has a lot of feelings a lot to say, packing a big punch.

Something I didn't know about this one going in is that it is actually set in 2011 and the characters carry around iPods. I miss this era and I was so pleased that a book put me back there.

Also I want to try pickles on pizza now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Gun violence, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death of parent, Death, Excrement, Grief, Toxic relationship, and Medical content

taviarz's review

dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.0

Same vibes as Juno but if Jennifer Garner was the weirdo instead of Jason Bateman

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Self harm, Pregnancy, Cursing, Addiction, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Death

suveva's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

1.5

Very confusing, but still catchy 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Mental illness, Vomit, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Stalking

Minor: Gun violence, Car accident, Abortion, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, and Murder

devynreadsnovels's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Stalking and Death of parent

Minor: Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Cursing, and Alcohol

roaze's review

dark emotional funny reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

I’ll get back to this after I’m done crying…. 
~A few days later~
Okay done crying here is a bunch of quotes and lines that I liked from the book or felt represented it pretty well.

“I started to picture the world without me in it“ -page 115.

“I added nothing - I had no hopes, no real tangible dreams that would make any lasting impact. If I was gone. Worst case scenario some pizzas wouldn’t be delivered on time. -page 116.

“You don’t have to be sorry. He didn’t die sad.
He died stupid.“-page 120.

“My heads a mess everywhere I go, I seem to find a way to trap myself. Most days, I can ignore it, but like anything really open and forgotten, it begins to rot. There are just too many thoughts, memories. I can’t look at anything and not think of something else.” -page 127.

“Jenny was more a person to me than mum ever had been” -page 136.

*Possible spoilers ahead*

“I love you,” he said “I love you so much and I’m so mad at you and I can’t even tell you how mad I am at you. The other day I woke up and went into our bathroom. The water was all over the floor, you’d left the sink running all night. I went back into the room, ready to fight about it, wanting to fight about it, but when I open the door you were just sitting up in bed, looking out the window. I stood in the doorway for a full five minutes, and you didn’t even turn your head.”
He looked up at me, tears dripping off his cheeks, and I wished he had hit me.
“What do you do in the shed in the backyard every night?”
Hit me, I can’t have this conversation, hit me, please, anything other than this.” -Page 160 to 161.

“Even if I never picked up the phone and heard her voice on the other end, I would’ve found something to lose myself in-If you were pushed off a cliff, you’d grab hold of anything resembling safety.“ - page 189.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Death of parent, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cursing, Toxic relationship, Stalking, and Sexual content

molliemoments's review

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Death of parent, Cursing, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Self harm, and Toxic relationship

alicedr's review

too creepy, no plotline, weird amount of sexual tension between a middle-aged woman and a pregnant teenager, writing style was high key kind of interesting which is why i kept reading it as far as i did

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship