Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

5 reviews

zeitfensterr's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-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: Complicated

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I adore this book a lot. SO well researched!! I adore the characters alot, ironically especially Lily's family :) And it was so interesting to read about the historical setting and the life of Chinese Americans in that time period as well. It genuinely felt so real and honest. Very glad I was able to read this story!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Homophobia, Racism, Outing, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Deportation

Moderate: Addiction, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Sexism, Violence, War

haley49's review against another edition

4.25

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Lesbophobia

Moderate: Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexism, Xenophobia, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Deportation

Minor: Addiction, Cursing, War

kappafrog's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Lesbophobia, Outing, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War

Moderate: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Blood, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Deportation

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Medical content

auteaandtales's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional informative inspiring mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism

Moderate: Deportation

Minor: Addiction, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Alcohol, War

onefineelephant's review

3.5

challenging reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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7/10. I've heard glowing reviews for this book and I don't really get the hype. I like the book well enough but I think it's far from being one of my favorites. One of my biggest criteria for if a book will get a 10/10 or be one of my favorites is if it makes me laugh and cry and this book unfortunately did neither for me.

The girls don't really get together/confess their feelings until more than half of the way through the book which is not my thing. Also, many of the flashback chapters seemed disjointed from the main story and it felt like they took away from the plot when I really wanted to know what was happening with Lily and Kath. I'm not sure if it was because of the historical fiction genre or the author's writing style, but it felt like all of the characters were at an emotional arm's length; there wasn't enough depth of emotion or communication as I personally am into. I enjoyed the exploration of queerness during this time period, especially with the added element of a person being in high school and being a non-white person.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual content, Lesbophobia, Outing, Toxic friendship, Alcohol

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Racism, Xenophobia, Cultural appropriation, War