Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Fight Night by Miriam Toews

5 reviews

helfire124's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

Humorous and heartfelt, a great listen that will have you laugh out loud.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Suicide, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death of parent, Death, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Alcohol, Body horror, Sexual harassment, Ableism, Animal death, Child abuse, Dementia, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

thatsssorachael's review

emotional funny sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Mental illness, Abandonment, and Alcoholism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

martinj's review against another edition

dark funny lighthearted sad fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Medical content, Child abuse, Death, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Blood, Grief, and Suicide

Minor: Alcoholism

f_amiliar_happine_ss's review

adventurous emotional funny inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

It is not those who can inflict the most but those who can suffer the most who will conquer.

After sulking in a reading slump for MONTHS, I have finally found a book that entertained me ~and~ left me wanting to read more, now I'm motivated enough to take on my ambitious tbr.
This novel describes the lives of three women in a family of fighters, set mostly in Canada with a quick travel to America, written as a letter from an eight-ish year old daughter to her alcoholic father who recently left his family. Although the perspective is that of a child's, this read carried such an emotional weight at times before the mood picks up with hysterical humor.
I mostly sprinted through this read, completing a chapter or two before taking a quick break, then coming right back because I just had to know why Swiv's father left, what happened with her mother just months previously, what Gord's gender is or if they are delivered safely; so many questions developed as I flew through this book which were promptly answered.
Highly recommend to all types of readers, definitely going to look into more of this authors work :)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy and Mental illness

Minor: Alcoholism, Infidelity, and Suicide

kay_greene's review

emotional 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? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Alcoholism

Minor: Abandonment