Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Bonfire by Krysten Ritter

4 reviews

belladonnashrike's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes

3.0

I dont feel like writing coherent paragraphs: 

- a solid debut. you can tell this is ritter’s first novel though (I don’t mean this negatively)
- wanted a nice easy read and this did the job. not super crazy and what I would personally consider a beach read
- going from sapkowski’s mile long chapters to patterson-esque chapters in this novel was jarring.  why can’t any of the authors I read write normal length chapters?? 
- she kind of belabors the point. it’s a bit much
- not a critique, but this is an incredibly obvious self-insert (and I don’t even know that much about ritter)

- brent and condor were too similar to me and up until the end I genuinely couldn’t tell the difference between them
- I liked that this was more than just an environmental mystery

- there was a lot going on in this book and felt a bit fragmented at times. I think it would’ve been better if she made this 350ish pages.

like, the whole “fake kaycee” thing and sheriff kahn having a timeshare in florida and being overall weird about kaycee just wasn’t addressed in the way I wanted it to.

- the word aphasia is misused and I don’t know how this wasn’t caught by the editor 
- I did enjoy it despite it sounding like I didn’t lol

put all the content warnings in moderate bc i’m lazy 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Dementia, Sexual assault, Animal death, Bullying, Chronic illness, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

ravenpuff's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Death, Murder, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Alcohol, Grief, Pedophilia, and Death of parent

Minor: Blood and Infidelity

notolux's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

5.0

I really enjoyed Bonfire. I picked it up because I absolutely loved Krysten Ritter in Jessica Jones and it did not disappoint. I've never been one to read mysteries, but I watch plenty of crime dramas, so I enjoyed following the clues and putting all the pieces together. Link for my full review: embracing-us.com/post/bonfire-book-review

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcohol, Cancer, Child death, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Suicide, Stalking, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, and Cursing

ginadapooh's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Murder, and Toxic friendship