Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

19 reviews

average's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

alexandre's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective relaxing tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Eventhough there're less-to-none uses of dialogues symbols, it's still readable. The book itself has a beautiful meaning behind every conversations between the characters. The arguements will made me sitting at the edge of the chair.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcoholism and Mental illness

alice_h's review

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

occasionalreader25's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense slow-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

2.75

As a big Sally Rooney fan, I was quite disappointed after finishing her most recent novel. Eventhough the writing was, as expected, brilliant, I found myself missing the personal thoughts of the protagonists. You could later read them in their Emails to one another, but still it was not the same as in her previous two novels where you truly had the feeling of looking inside the character‘s head which is one of my favorite things about Rooney‘s writing style. I also found the characters and especially the relationship between Felix and Alice flat. Felix was, I think, such a problematic und unlikeable character, which was probably intended, but I still found it quite hard to watch him treating Alice like he did. He made me truly agressive. One thing I found very interesting was how Rooney wrote the sex scenes in this novel. I feel like she really set a focus on the conversation during it. The telephone sex scene was actually one of my favourites, she did such an amazing job with that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

nienora's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness

Minor: Alcoholism and Pregnancy

anima_vestaa's review against another edition

inspiring reflective fast-paced

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

4.75

A lovely, inspiring and beautifully realistic book about finding meaning and beauty in a cold modern world. The conclusion of the book is disputable imo and I would have loved a bit more diversity w the characters. Still manages a great rating for the inspiring remarks on the modern world and the great writing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Drug use, and Mental illness

Minor: Alcoholism

samvansam's review

reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Death of parent, Abortion, Alcoholism, Bullying, Chronic illness, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, and Pregnancy

nialiversuch's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Infertility

Moderate: Alcohol, Cursing, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, and Toxic relationship

literarytaurean's review against another edition

hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

this was AMAZING. sally rooney said "let me turn the dial all the way up to 10 with the communism, existentialism, sex, and intimacy". i would die for eileen and simon also. i saw a lot of reviews say that rooney really came into her full potential with this one and i fully agree. this had much less frustration with the characters like her earlier novels (these characters are also notably older) and this was a much happier and solidified ending than her previous works as well, it really left us on a great note. i've only blown through one other book like this in my adult life, and it was the phantom prince book about ted bundy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Pregnancy