Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Опиумная война by R.F. Kuang

2253 reviews

drewanne's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, War

kyera1203's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

olliewantsoutie's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, War

arecordofki's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Okay I've been avoiding this book and anything R.F. Kuang because of how everyone always ends up devastated by it, but I have always been curious about the story, and her writing.
This book was very real, and reflective of not only the world's current state, but also brings back the atrocities of the past and reminds you that what may have been history is still repeating itself and it truly gets you to reflect.
The book itself surprised me with its light-hearted tone at the start, and I was laughing at bits and pieces, falling in love with Rin as a character and getting attached to others. I like to think I don't cry quite easily when it comes to books, happy tears are easier to elict from me than sad ones, and this book wasn't an exception.

the Golyn Niss scene was gruesome and sickening, and yet I was relatively alright reading it, however it was when Venka recounted her experience with the soldiers and them mentioning mutilating young girls that really....that really did something that made me need to put the book down for a hot minute.

R.F. Kuang is really good at capturing every side: the good and the bad, and honestly her ability to make me question whether we truly are on the good side is pretty damn great. I'm a bit more intrigued to continue and read the rest of the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail

leorblake's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Violence, War

itshayleytyme7's review against another edition

2.5

dark sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This wasn't for me. Dark in a simplistic way. I do not need to dwell on horrors to know that they've happened. If anything, the best part was a slow evaluation of what could lead someone to commit atrocities.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War

sara_ty's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Drug use, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, War

kmf0023's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Loveable characters: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Violence, War

Minor: Rape, Fire/Fire injury

yassyinbloom's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail

stephaniegoodwin's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, Colonisation, War, Classism

This book draws heavily on the Rape of Nanjing