Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Just For the Summer by Abby Jimenez

40 reviews

sytaylor's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Grief, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, and Vomit

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Alcoholism

letmetakea_shelfie_'s review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Alcoholism, and Toxic relationship

johcie's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcoholism

bookswithvicky's review

dark emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Mental illness

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Child abuse

abiigrl's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

dani_reis's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Vomit, Grief, Sexual content, and Alcoholism

gwenswoons's review

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I loved this so much. I love Abby Jimenez - I will pre-order all her books always - and this one was maybe my favorite ever. I am continually impressed and moved by how deep the character development felt in this, and how deeply and emotionally Jimenez deals with major trauma and mental health struggles; this book is probably the most vivid example of that and I thought it was just gorgeous. It is NOT light and easy - though I loved knowing that there would be an HEA (thank you genre fiction!!), I appreciated that the mention and dealing with the characters’ stuff wasn’t cursory. I LOVED the main characters and the ways they grew and changed, and also felt (as always) that the side characters were beautifully drawn. (Also love the mentions, big and small, of  characters from Abby Jimenez’s other books - ones we love and ones we hate!! The various webs that intersect in her world building just feel so good!)

I loved the audio narration by Christine Lakin and Zachary Webber (both SO good), though the author Q&A was a little disappointing to me; I’ll add it to the content warnings but as someone who has major trauma from a house fire I found AJ’s giggles about the major fire plot point in the book kind of off-putting. As I said I will still for sure order her next one and can’t wait to read it - I drew this out for five days with much effort and it made me so happy. ❤️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Grief, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Vomit

mothmanda's review against another edition

funny hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, and Alcoholism

jules_stacksonstacks's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

This book wow. The storyline was amazing. Heavy topics were addressed in a real authentic way. I loved the love story and how the two met. Reminded me of the movie Good Luck Chuck lol. Would totally watch this if it was a movie! 

Read if you like—
💖dual POV
💖 learning to love yourself and others
💖 fun dates 
💖 drama 
💖 character connections from prior Abby books
💖 cute little family 
💖 he takes care of her 😍

Thanks netgalley for this ARC copy! 
Pub date 4/2/24

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness

cristinaaa's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Abandonment, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Vomit and Alcoholism