Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier

49 reviews

mareverie's review

not a fan of the drinking while pregnant

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Alcoholism

blymanor's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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? Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Addiction, and Mental illness

Minor: Gun violence, Death of parent, and Infidelity

mcrespo's review

challenging emotional funny sad medium-paced

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

4.0

i loved so many of frazier’s writing choices and the style of her writing, and i appreciate the way she wrote about the american immigrant story of the main character’s mother. pizza girl, the main character, is deeply flawed and at times infuriating, but i’m also deeply flawed and infuriating so i held a lot of grace for the character. the last 30 pages of the novel were crazy in a wonderful way.  

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Minor: Domestic abuse

miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Death of parent, and Panic attacks/disorders

rachaelwho's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-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

3.5

I'm not sure. It was very uneven. I didn't care for the first half or even 2/3 at all, thought about DNF-ing, decided to see it through. I'm glad I did. Did not find it remotely funny.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Addiction

Moderate: Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Grief, Sexual content, Stalking, and Suicidal thoughts

kathrynshields's review against another edition

dark funny sad tense fast-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

3.0

Weird, kind of sad, and unexpected. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Addiction, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Alcohol, Grief, and Pregnancy

economydreams's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual content

leonormsousa's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

I wouldn't think this is the kind of book I would enjoy and yet I did. Maybe because there's this constant theme of "feeling lost" that is something that I can relate so much to.
The mc is unlikeable and i feel like you're supposed to judge her for her actions (which are terrible and keep spiraling). For some reason, I didn't. I felt almost empathy towards her. She has gotten herself into a life that doesn't feel like her own, it feels mostly that she can't quite tell how she got in it the first place. And after that, it's all just sort of a fever dream where she's just acting on impulse and letting her intrusive thoughts take hold.
And so despite all the bad bad stuff she did, there's a small part of me that can't stop thinking "good for her" and that's is thankful I got to go with her on this crazy ride.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Medical content, Grief, Abortion, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Pregnancy, and Death of parent

snoodle_poodle's review against another edition

dark emotional sad

• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Gun violence

Moderate: Infidelity

rebeccadiv's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-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? Yes

4.0

If you get it, you get it. If you don't, you don't. And I got it, and really enjoyed it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Alcoholism

Minor: Death, Addiction, Death of parent, Child abuse, and Grief