Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

11 reviews

sparrowc's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Sexual violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Alcohol

thombus's review against another edition

5.0

dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Classism

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault

megsug's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional inspiring 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: No

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A Tale of Two Cities has a slow start and a tendency to flag between scenes set in France. per usual with Dickens, the colorful cast of characters make wading through a slow plot and dense language worth it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Gun violence, Violence

Minor: Rape

benegesserwitch's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Alcoholism, Classism

Minor: Gore

soph22's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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It broke my heart. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Alcohol

rossiell's review against another edition

5.0

emotional reflective sad tense slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Alcohol, Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Mental illness, Slavery, Violence

Minor: Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Murder

serena_hien's review against another edition

3.0

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Murder, Classism

Minor: Death of parent

annapox's review against another edition

2.75

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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2 stars for the first half; 3.5 stars for the second half.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Alcohol, Classism

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail

madinhoa's review against another edition

1.0

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Very hard to read. Everything is confusing and like a puzzle you have to put together with missing pieces. There are a lot of names that are all very similar and characters that are hard to tell apart. The only interesting thing that happens is in the last 100 pages. I would recommend looking up the spark notes summary and watching it rather than reading the book — it is way harder to read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, War

milton's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Violence, Murder, Alcohol

Moderate: Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy

Minor: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury