Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Опиумная война by R.F. Kuang

2262 reviews

cieloverde's review against another edition

2.0

dark 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: No

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Started off well - character driven - but a third of the way through it switched to fantasy novel violence which wasn’t much fun to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Violence, War

bookthrifter's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark tense

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Content Warnings

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

lawrence_david's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous 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: Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical content, Suicide attempt

Minor: Addiction, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Blood, Colonisation, Classism

gourdziller's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Incredible book. Kuang is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. There are a lot of really hard questions in this that lead to really incredible dialogue. Rin is such a fascinating character to follow and I'm going to find out where this goes.

It's real in your mind. That's as real as anything gets.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Violence, Xenophobia, War

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse

Minor: Sexual violence

cazza1805's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark informative sad tense fast-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: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Torture, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Racism, Police brutality, Grief, Colonisation, Classism

Minor: Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery

mrnikkel's review against another edition

3.5

dark sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual violence, Torture, Xenophobia, Blood, Colonisation, War, Classism

miri_ale01's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying

emilyiswriting's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional 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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Wow

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, War

Moderate: Addiction

plotwaffle's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

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, Death, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Racism, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Cultural appropriation, War

boliv3's review against another edition

2.0

dark informative 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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I stopped reading so many times because I was so annoyed. The main character is aggravating and incompetent, the “historical” element reads like a textbook and something to validate the fiction, and those parts are like tragedy porn. There were also several discrepancies and contradictions in the plot that made the story hard to follow. The character development to justify all the tragedy never happened. The characters with any depth went to waste. And yet I’m reading the second book to know what happens.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Genocide, Gore, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Murder, War