Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

64 reviews

lumew2's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted 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

4.0

idk how i started liking the characters by the end but i did. good god. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Toxic friendship, Blood, Infidelity, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Toxic relationship, and Self harm

Moderate: Vomit, Alcohol, and Cursing

Minor: Addiction, Lesbophobia, and Classism

djenkin96's review

challenging dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

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

3.75

I think it was just a story of repeated behaviours from all the main characters. There were sections of self development or self awareness with the intent to improve, but did any character actually develop ? In the end I didn’t even end up liking Bobbi or Frances or even Melissa. I’m not even sure I liked nick. A lot of loose ends at the end ? It’s  Like the author got bored, undid all the self-awareness and ended the book ? 

I did like the relevant topics And The nod to endometriosis.However I Feel the author  glazed over a large amount of obvious body image issues and an eating disorder ?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Infertility, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Mental illness, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Pregnancy, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Gaslighting, Miscarriage, Eating disorder, Medical content, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual content

monica_brown00's review against another edition

mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

First of all, this book had no quotations when characters were talking which was honestly very confusing. I never knew if it was all in the main character’s head or actual dialogue. The book seemed to have a lot of hype for something that was actually mid. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Infertility

wildestreadsoffrancis's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Abortion, Suicidal thoughts, and Infidelity

Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Addiction, Chronic illness, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Homophobia

laura7l's review

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Blood, Chronic illness, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Addiction

hayleythepaige's review

dark emotional reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Dysphoria, Sexual content, Addiction, Alcohol, Body shaming, Blood, Classism, Grief, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Self harm, and Toxic relationship

marthaalice's review

emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Self harm, and Toxic friendship

bookish_5280's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

I read Normal People just recently and felt that I absolutely had to get my hands on another Sally Rooney book immediately. I had this lurching feeling in my stomach starting this book, fearing that it wouldn't live up to her debut novel. All those thoughts disappeared within a couple pages. Rooney has this incredible, irresistible ability to encapsulate little moments--the little pleasures, the little disappointments, the little beautiful details--all the things that might seem mundane and unimportant she surrounds with this stunning, heartthrobbingly accurate language. You read it and you just have to close the book and sit back and think, "wow. that is something so normal, so everyday, that i've completely ignored it. and yet it's so incredibly beautiful." Frances and Bobbi and Nick and Melissa are all complicated--the book, at its core, isn't about cheating or marriage or romance. It's about acknowledging how all these intricate moving parts (traumas, previous relationships, financial hardships, psychologically engrained power dynamics) play into the formation of somebody's life path. Sally Rooney somehow manages to let the reader live inside multiple characters' minds simultaneously and use this omniscience to reflect on how these people's histories got them to the place where they are right now. At multiple points in the book, everything is so utterly confused and chaotic and dysfunctional and depressing and yet you see these characters' thoughts with complete clarity, and it's absolutely magical. Sally Rooney's books are this whole other world with genuine, real characters experiencing life at its harshest and most disorienting--it's a world with people we might know, with the toughest, rawest situations, and yet also the most compelling, hopeful moments. 

"You live through certain things before you understand them."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Infidelity, Self harm, Alcoholism, and Addiction

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Drug use

shreeyukta's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Blood

Moderate: Addiction and Mental illness

helenamichelle's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Addiction, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts