Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie

3 reviews

da3m0nic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Classism, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal death, Confinement, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Racism, and Vomit

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug use, Excrement, Incest, and Infidelity

surdiablo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Hands down the best middle book of a trilogy I've ever read, perhaps Abercrombie's best work so far as well. It was an improvement over its predecessor in every single way, with an enthralling plot, impeccable pacing, and amazing character development, which left me wondering where the hell the story would even go from here, considering everything that happened. I would have finished it in 3 days which would be the fastest I ever read a 500+ page book, if I hadn't postponed reading the last act due to real-life matters. Without spoilers, I would say it just encompasses the best of everything he has to offer into a single book, but the stakes are higher than last time, and it's executed better than ever. I believe this book has cemented

Orso and Rikke

as my favorite characters in the new trilogy, and as much as I would like to gush about my newfound favorites, this is one of those instances where I would just prefer to go and read the next book immediately than talk ( Although I won't yet because I am still processing.. ). So yes, no complaints, no extra thoughts, I am simply blown away!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Homophobia and Sexual content

Minor: Alcoholism and Animal cruelty

mikki_9's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

The ending for this book was much more interesting than in the first book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexism, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Incest, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Torture, and Vomit