Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Опиумная война by R.F. Kuang

2266 reviews

msmando's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

confettimama's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The fire of souls feed the fires of hell.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual violence, Torture

The author goes to great lengths to describe the reality of war. Great read but thread lightly.

nighmara's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark reflective tense fast-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, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War

msvnix's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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The "tug of war" within the main character - her fight to "become someone" while not knowing WHO she really is; then the push and pull between that identity and the responsibility that comes with it, I found riveting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Violence, Murder, War

Moderate: Drug use, Sexual violence, Classism

Minor: Addiction, Confinement, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail

basaxophoon's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Physical abuse, Rape, Fire/Fire injury

katepaw's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Classism, Deportation

kingcrookback's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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: Death, Genocide, Violence, War

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Rape, Sexual violence, Colonisation

Minor: Animal death, Infertility, Self harm, Vomit, Classism

eankudey's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I really really wanted to love this book and I love an

antihero

, however this was a slightly traumatizing read. It was well written and I will admit I went in blind, so maybe I just wasn't adequately prepared for the read.

I started out wanting Rin to succeed and I ended the book sort of disgusted with her. I feel like Altan was a better character than her in terms of complexity because she made almost parallel decisions as Altan without the same background and context as him. She had people supporting her and showing her an alternative and literally chose violence.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, War

ludmireads's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional 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: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Rape, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War

bevlovesbooks's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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, Drug use, Genocide, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, War