Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Опиумная война by R.F. Kuang

2269 reviews

sab7800's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Infertility, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Classism

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Suicide

camifestari's review against another edition

4.0

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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Ok. So definitely a loooot of trigger warnings..

This was fun, very hard to read at times, very cruel, but super readable!
Definitely would recommend if you can stomach it~

The writing tough.. I don't know, something felt off. Like she would say something and later that was not actually the case, and the again, and it happended too many times throughout the book for my taste. Maybe it has a reason why? dk.
Also, like.. I don't think I really know what she is trying to convey with these books, but I guess I'll have to wait to finish the series!
Solid 4 stars!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Slavery

lorepanda's review against another edition

3.5

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Violence, War

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Rape

freyajhugroo's review against another edition

5.0

dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Reading this book feels like you are getting slapped in the face repeatedly. The first half you get slapped every 30 pages or so and then in the last half every ten and then every page. I will be reading the sequel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, War

aqkatsukii's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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it started off as the weirdest book i have ever read, and ended with it being the most tragic and horrific book i have ever read. i have never felt such strong and compelling emotions towards a book before, and had such vivid images of the story. the storytelling was beautiful, and perfectly captured the world and every minor detailing within it. all the scenes where i had previously disliked or thought odd were perfectly intertwined and explored with the ending - everything was intentional and gruesome. the characters within were all so morally grey, and it really was hard to truly love or hate a character. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Classism

noamluria's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional sad 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, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide

hazelbud's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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RF Kuang's style is so clear, the scenes with Jiang reminded me so much of Babel. I find that RF Kuang's writing often feels like you're in a really engaging lecture. She infodumps in a way that doesn't feel like an infodumping, and moreso like you're learning and engrossed in what she has to teach or discuss with you. I don't love it as much as I do Babel, but I might change my mind after reading the next two!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, War

Moderate: Physical abuse, Colonisation

Minor: Sexual assault

bogbride's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I would give this 6 stars if I could. unbelievably well done. i listened to the audiobook which was also fantastically narrated. had me driving with my jaw dropped at several points. i'm not usually a huge fight scene fan, but the combo of the writing and narration had me so invested my heart was pounding. i wasn't sure if i was on board at the beginning, but the contrast between that version of rin and rin at the end is so so good. she's such a complex and flawed character and i love that she isn't concerned at all with being beautiful. i could go on forever. god

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual violence, Colonisation, Classism

anyamaniyath's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional sad 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Xenophobia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail

stitchwilliam's review against another edition

2.5

challenging dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gore, Violence, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence