Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

3 reviews

superstar_y2k's review

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

2.75

this book is not as complex as it seems to be (or rather has the potential to be) 
this book speaks on colonialism, racism and white supremacy, murder, betrayal, politics, and other humanitarian topics but somehow oversimplifies and brushes off those topics to follow a clumsy mystery where our romeo & juliette must work together despite their previous murderous betrayals.  see, the thing about shakespeare’s romeo & juliette is that the reader wants to root for them.  roma & juliette cai aren’t likable characters that i felt didn’t actually love each other.  
i could go on, but honestly there are many other reviews i’ve seen that correspond to the way i feel, so i won’t beat a dead horse

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Classism, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcohol, Death, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Child abuse, Cursing, Toxic friendship, Blood, and Torture

Moderate: Death of parent, Bullying, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Gore, Deadnaming, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

natesalsbury's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, War, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcohol, Violence, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Gun violence, and Gore

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Deadnaming

persikan_05's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Murder, Racism, Blood, Body horror, Alcohol, Body shaming, Death of parent, Hate crime, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Vomit, Death, Drug use, and Fatphobia