Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

All's Well by Mona Awad

44 reviews

xbernadette's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Chronic illness, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail

booksofautumn's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

lunar_lesbian's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny

Moderate: Toxic relationship

racbuckallew's review against another edition

3.25

dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Insane!!!!!!!! For the love of God make a stage manager present and get those students out of mental and physical danger 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Sexual content

sophiamophia's review against another edition

4.75

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Sexual content, Medical trauma, Alcohol

Moderate: Grief, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent

medini_l's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Gaslighting

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug use, Death of parent

marissab's review against another edition

3.75

challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Medical trauma

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Body horror, Chronic illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Grief

bloomed's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Mental illness, Medical trauma

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts

savvylit's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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All's Well has very intense descriptions of chronic pain. Miranda's pain truly dictates every part of her day. Despite her immense suffering, she experiences disbelief and cruelty from friends and medical professionals alike. Everyone Miranda knows suggests that her symptoms are psychosomatic. As if real, lasting pain wouldn't be a consequence of a traumatic accident. Mona Awad vividly and empathetically portrays Miranda's world of pain and the resulting painkiller addiction.

This wouldn't be a Mona Awad book, though, without a hypnotic descent into fever dream territory. After Miranda has a magical encounter at a pub, her narration becomes more and more unreliable. What's real in Miranda's life? She herself has no idea. This segment of the book was certainly an entertaining rollercoaster ride. However, it seemed to drag on and on only to maintain ambiguity. Perhaps my lack of familiarity with Shakespeare's less popular plays is what led to my feeling of disconnect from All's Well by its ending. I could tell that Awad was referencing Shakespearean tropes and characters but many of the references flew right over my head.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Chronic illness, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

maryjames's review against another edition

2.5

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction