Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

35 reviews

ftd318's review against another edition

dark reflective 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Suicide and Addiction

keeganrb's review against another edition

emotional tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Violence, and Trafficking

ashlitas's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, and Violence

kerrygetsliterary's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Murder, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Suicide, Torture, and Violence

markedwithanm's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Addiction, Bullying, Child death, Death of parent, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Racism

opinionsofawolf's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Suicide, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Murder, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Grief, Death of parent, Death, Child abuse, Blood, Alcoholism, and Addiction

Moderate: Pedophilia

keatynbergsten's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

I don’t read a lot of crime/thriller books.  But this one really got me!  I was in a bit of a reading slump, working really slowly through a couple slower moving books and picked this one up and it was just what I needed.  Wasn’t super creepy like many thrillers but still really caught my attention and kept me wanting more.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Kidnapping, and Violence

anna_reads_too_much's review against another edition

dark emotional informative fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Racial slurs

kachina's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

I don’t wanna give this a bad star rating but idk I felt like I had some qualms w this book. 

As a fellow white Indigenous (and Oceti Sakowin) relative, I just felt like so much of this book played into strange colonizer stereotypes. 

Something in the spirit of it felt...off. I think there’s a lot of nuanced discourse around whiteness and Indigeneity, and a lot of uncomfortable learning, too. 

So much of this felt like a white Native pity fest. Not to dismiss the nuances of the particular pain of being ostracized from your own community, I know that pain well, but it feels so centered in this book in a weird way that implicates other non-white or white passing Natives in a way that feels like something an author of this age should’ve grown out of by now. 

I also felt like there was some weird lateral oppressive stereotype deployment in terms of how Latinx folks were portrayed but that’s a whole other can of worms. 

In all; I wanna support fellow Indigenous creators and writers, but outside of my work this book has really put to the forefront for me how much I don’t think I’ll be reading cishet, white male stories in the future. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Violence, Racism, Racial slurs, and Physical abuse

horrorbound's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative sad tense fast-paced

• 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: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Violence