Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Roxy by Jarrod Shusterman, Neal Shusterman

28 reviews

ecravens's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Medical content, Child death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Grief, and Vomit

graciffer's review

challenging dark sad tense

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Medical content and Terminal illness

oliverreeds's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

writing is good. but its a little heavy handed. doesnt leave a lot of the metaphor to the imagination.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Vomit, Addiction, Alcohol, Cancer, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Child death, Drug use, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, and Mental illness

kate_mare's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

It was very slow to read but a good book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Death, Addiction, Violence, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

kshertz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-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

4.0

This was such a good read and also, deeply disturbing and emotional. It is a fictional story of sibling addiction but at the same time, it has the drugs as main characters themselves. That took some getting used to and felt gimmicky and silly at first but then I fell into the deeper meaning and was able to fully learn and feel the emotion of addiction and the pain from this that is felt by families and the cycle continuing. Hard but good and important read. Surprised it’s YA!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Alcoholism, Self harm, Grief, Gaslighting, Death, Alcohol, and Toxic relationship

esme_may's review against another edition

dark emotional informative tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

There was a point in this book where I thought I was going to like it as much as some of Neal Shusterman's other books (I loved the Arc of a Scythe trilogy and Dry) as it was easy to get invested, but after a while it got repetitive. I used to be someone who kept up with the author's releases but I'm not sure that I still will given how widely my opinions on his different books vary

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Grief, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Car accident, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

avatas's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Death, Drug abuse, Suicide, Medical content, Addiction, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness

Minor: Cancer and Terminal illness

lottykarottie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Berauschende Lesereise

Beschreibung: 
Als Isaac der überirdisch schönen Roxy begegnet, zieht sie ihn sofort in ihren Bann. Er fühlt sich lebendig wie nie, alles ist leicht und nichts scheint unmöglich. Isaac ahnt nicht, dass Roxy kein normales Mädchen ist, sondern eine Droge, hergestellt in einem Labor, um die Menschen von ihrem Schmerz zu befreien. Und Millionen Menschen lieben sie dafür. Doch das ist Roxy nicht genug. Sie will beweisen, wie tödlich sie ist. 
Stell dir vor, Drogen wären Menschen wie du und ich ... Was würden sie fühlen, denken und wovon würden sie heimlich träumen?

In diesem Buch erzählen Neal und Jarrod Shusterman auf visuelle und kognitiv anspruchsvolle Weise die Wirkung von Drogen, dessen Missbrauch und die verheerenden Auswirkungen auf das Leben aller betroffenen. Dabei ist es egal ob diese legalisiert sind wie Alkohol oder illegal wie LSD oder Oxycodone. Man wird förmlich ein gesogen in eine Welt zwischen Rausch, Realitätsverlust und Fantasy- da die Drogen personifiziert werden. 
Es ist nicht vergleichbar mit anderen Jugendbüchern und trifft den Zeitgeist, indem Experimente von Jugendlichen mit Drogen nicht oft genug thematisiert werden. Außerdem visualisiert  die Geschichte eindringlich, wie leicht es ist in die Abhängigkeit zu rutschen und dass niemand vor eine solchen Sucht bzw. Abhängigkeit sicher ist, besonders innerhalb der USA, denn dort werden Opiate großzügig als Schmerzmittel verordnet.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Addiction, Alcoholism, Car accident, Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

rachelbram's review against another edition

medium-paced

3.0

Extremely disappointed by the portrayal of Adderall, as well as of ADHD. I don't think this was their intention, but the authors really imply that people who have ADHD and are prescribed medication will abuse it, when people who abuse Adderall usually do not fall in those categories. Where the hell was Ivy's doctor? How did she "up her dosage" when the book never indicates she used less than legitimate means to access her medication?

I feel like it's a cool idea in theory to portray drugs as gods. But I can't think of a way to execute this concept without inherently moralizing these drugs, simply by giving them personalities. I'm still not sure what to make of the idea that a drug can fall in love with a person? What does that mean?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Death

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, and Medical content

lilytheravenclaw's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Child death, Toxic friendship, and Death