Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Las Virgenes Suicidas by Jeffrey Eugenides

69 reviews

jessicaa_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Child death, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Self harm, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Child abuse, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

chaoticweevil's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Grief, Sexual harassment, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, Death, Sexism, Stalking, Ableism, Racial slurs, Suicide, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol, Eating disorder, Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, and Blood

Minor: Vomit and Drug use

sofiasofiasofia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Self harm, and Mental illness

Moderate: Grief, Sexual content, Blood, Drug use, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcohol and Alcoholism

amspen's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcohol, Drug use, and Sexual content

coriblake's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

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

4.0

Left me with a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach, jury’s still out on whether that’s positive or negative.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Grief, Pedophilia, Suicide, Child death, Confinement, Death, Stalking, Blood, and Sexual content

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Medical content

Minor: Addiction

rachelg's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Alcohol, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death, and Emotional abuse

ghostyiris's review against another edition

sad fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Alcohol, Child death, Grief, Mental illness, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

seanajk's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Child death, Mental illness, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Grief, Suicide attempt, Self harm, and Death

Moderate: Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, and Blood

Minor: Drug use and Alcohol

jaiari12's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Confinement, Death, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, and Mental illness

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Ableism, Vomit, Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, Medical content, and Sexism

Minor: Pregnancy

manicmeg's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

5.0

This book is less about the girls and more about the male gaze looking into the girls. This is about male perversion and the manic-pixie-dream-girl trope. It's really interesting and really well done, the author, male, does well handling the male gaze and the distance between the narrator and the Lisbon's. The readers don't get to know any of the characters, we're viewing the events through such disconnection that the plot doesn't even really matter. It's such a weird book but it's excellently done.
I guess also the question isn't why did the girls commit suicide and more of why did they plan it so specifically and together.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Drug use, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death, and Self harm

Moderate: Alcohol and Alcoholism