Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Garron Park by Nordika Night

8 reviews

brimacca's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Infidelity, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Medical content, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Dementia, Emotional abuse, and Death

apolen's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Violence, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Medical content, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Child abuse, Gun violence, and Gaslighting

Minor: Homophobia

krhart's review

emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Garron Park is not the most pleasant place to live. But sometimes the chips fall where they may. Tucked away in the trailer park are Xavi, Devon, Maddox and Nate. They forged their own family amongst the 4 of them and make it work. 

Devon and Maddox have hated each other since they can remember. Rivals on the race track, with girls, in life. They live to make the other one miserable. But what is that hate? They discover it may be something so much more.

I love the banter. The hard shell outside, soft shell inside parts of them are beautiful. They struggle to define what they are to one another, but does everything need a label?

This was a great, hard fought love story with super angst, meddling and caring older brothers, jerk fathers and some redemption. And it's 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism and Violence

cait's review against another edition

challenging dark sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Ableism, Homophobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Grief, Blood, Classism, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Violence, Chronic illness, Drug use, Addiction, Bullying, Drug abuse, Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, and Hate crime

andrhyshend's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, and Bullying

lovelyinnature's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny medium-paced

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

4.5

My boys!! God this was a insanely good book. Maddox and Devon are the most chaotic characters. They're the products of their environments but still full of love not that they really know that. Maddox Kane my boy!!! He would literally do anything for Devon and kinda does for real. Devon is surprisingly insecure. He even knows he might be a bigger asshole than Maddox but he can't let him go. Xavi and Nate are ridiculous best friends and older brothers. Esp Xavi they do tend to read more as best friends than siblings to Maddox and Devon but not in a bad way. I'm super excited to see where this duology goes bc im already so attached to this idiots. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Domestic abuse

wildatheart1339's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Blood and Alcoholism

Minor: Mental illness, Addiction, and Drug use

kjenae's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This author did NOT disappoint! Maddox and Devon were EVERYTHING. 
The way that they kept up the banter even after they got together is the highlight of the book. They fight a lot and it can get physical majority of the time…but it’s their way of connecting and communicating. If anyone else even dared to try and fight Devon…i truly believe Maddox would be there to kill that person!
The relationship between the 4 main characters (Nate, Devon, Xavi, Maddox) was so great. I loved how close they were and how their relationships developed a bit more and fleshed out more. There was a strong sense of brotherhood/community. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Blood, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Alcoholism