Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho

28 reviews

amberinpieces's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Vomit, Infidelity, and Chronic illness

Minor: Death, Abortion, Body shaming, Classism, Cursing, Drug use, Racism, Death of parent, Grief, Homophobia, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Mental illness, Fatphobia, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, and Pregnancy

robinks's review

emotional hopeful 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

4.5

I really enjoyed reading through these little blips of Fiona & Jane’s lives, the ebbs and flows of their friendship over many years. I didn’t like that some of the stories seemed to be out of chronological order. Also, I sometimes could not understand Jane’s actions.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Sexual content, Suicide, Alcohol, and Cancer

Moderate: Grief, Racism, and Fatphobia

Minor: Abortion, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Homophobia

christine_s's review

challenging emotional reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, and Alcohol

Minor: Abortion

erleabee's review against another edition

Did not read all the content warnings. Too much alcohol. Thought the plot would be different. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

jaynovara's review

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Cancer, and Drug use

Moderate: Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Outing, Infidelity, and Vomit

Minor: Abortion, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Adult/minor relationship, and Biphobia

althebookworm's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad 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: Suicide, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, and Cancer

Minor: Abortion

thereaderfriend's review

emotional 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? Yes

3.0

I thought I was gonna really like this but it wasn't what it promised to be. I was under the impression it'd be about 2 FMC's friendship, and how the characters impacted each other. It focused more on the characters themselves, and the relationships the characters were in. I did like the style though where it was disorganized short stories and remarks of events because it reminded me of real life and memories. I really liked the character development too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, and Alcohol

Minor: Abortion

ahskme's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-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

Moderate: Biphobia, Outing, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Alcohol, Death of parent, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Racism

sholcomb's review

dark emotional reflective sad fast-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

3.25

I loved the characters in this book, and the writing style had me captivated, but unfortunately it was just too rushed. The timeline was confusing sometimes and I couldn’t tell what had happened to get us to the point we were at, not enough was explained. Also sometimes there was too much focus on things that were never brought up again, rather than the actual friendship of Jane and Fiona. I would’ve loved if there was more time with them together, dealing with things, and more about their friendship as a whole, as well as more explanations of certain plot points. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Alcohol, Terminal illness, Sexual assault, Death, Violence, Outing, Drug use, and Death of parent

burnt_milk's review against another edition

funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

I enjoy literary fiction but find it kinda difficult to talk about. Some parts of this really hit, but as is often the case with these kind of stories I wish subjects were given more depth. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Alcohol, Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Outing, and Racism

Minor: Abortion, Sexual assault, and Vomit