Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

23 reviews

estraat's review

emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Terminal illness, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Infertility, Racism, Alcohol, and Addiction

izzy_v's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Domestic abuse, Grief, Alcoholism, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Death, Addiction, Racial slurs, Gaslighting, and Death of parent

Minor: Terminal illness

kimveach's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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

4.25

I chose to listen to this book as it was on a "great on audio list."  I've heard better narrations, but the story was great.  I think I'd have liked it even better in print.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Abandonment, Cursing, Death of parent, Racism, Dementia, Infertility, Murder, Physical abuse, Cancer, Child death, Gaslighting, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Classism, Colonisation, Racial slurs, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, and Violence

mackenna832's review

slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Abandonment, Kidnapping, Domestic abuse, and Murder

10inspace's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

Hell of a read. Heartache and happiness and everything human in between. 

Bummer that the author found endless ways to describe characters as fat without being relevant in any way whatsoever to the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Violence, Emotional abuse, Murder, Dementia, Child death, Addiction, Kidnapping, Alcoholism, Fatphobia, Racism, Body shaming, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Grief, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Death, Colonisation, and Alcohol

devynreadsnovels's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Dementia, Kidnapping, Car accident, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Racism, Miscarriage, Blood, Child death, Terminal illness, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, Sexism, and Violence

Minor: Classism, Cultural appropriation, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Alcoholism, Drug use, Alcohol, Abortion, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Medical content, and Religious bigotry

sheridan_powell's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Kidnapping, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Racial slurs and Addiction

20sidedbi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Dementia, Racial slurs, Infertility, Pregnancy, Classism, Racism, Miscarriage, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Alcohol, Kidnapping, Addiction, Violence, Death, and Alcoholism

books_tea_blanket's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.75

This book deals with grief, some of what was but mainly what could have been. The characters’ stories are often sad as they find themselves, and I found myself wishing that their lives had been different. But I don’t put the blame on the author for writing their stories this way, but on the people and their choices in the book, as well as problems with society, for shaping the characters’ stories. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Terminal illness, Gaslighting, Grief, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism, Car accident, Death, Dementia, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Racism, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, Murder, Violence, Blood, Addiction, and Alcohol

Minor: Colonisation, Infertility, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, Animal death, and Lesbophobia

Childhood trauma, loss of a child, and lack of identity are consistent themes and potential triggers throughout the book.

okiecozyreader's review against another edition

adventurous reflective sad slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

3.5 stars rounded up / audiobook 2 stars
I would not recommend this on audio. For some reason the male narrator’s voice seems a lot softer to hear. I crank it and I still can’t understand what he’s saying. The female narrator seems like me reading it. I am so bummed about the narration (I have seen a couple other reviews saying the same).

I do think if you liked Go as a River, you would like this one. I went to Maine last summer and picked some wild blueberries by the road and it was such a delight. I love imagining the Maine I visited while reading this. 

I liked the fact that we meet the sister and know her all the way through the book, so the ending is kind of predictable. 

This book has many triggers, so if you have any, I would check that, also. It was a tough book with a lot of tough topics, and not much lighter escape from the tough. Sad story.

“ It’s funny what you remember when something goes wrong. Something that would never stick in your memory on an ordinary day gets stuck there permanent.”
Ch 1

Protests didn’t happen in my hometown, where we were all just various versions of one another and everyone thought the same. If they did think differently, they did it quietly behind closed doors.”
Ch 6

“Hope is such a wonderful thing until it isn’t.” Chapter 7

“Some wounds cannot be healed. Some wounds never close, never scar. But the further away from the injury, the easier it became to smile.”
Ch 8

“Those cracks I had been hammering into my life and into my marriage had become an earthquake of my own making, one too destructive for me to repair.” ch 9

“Some secrets are so dark that it’s best they remain buried. Even people who exude light and happiness have dark secrets. Sometimes, the lie becomes so entrenched it becomes the truth, hidden in the deep recesses of the mind until death erases it, leaving the world a little different.” ch 10

“Every one of alive today comes from something bad done to the family that came before us.” ch 11

“It was good to witness nature doing what it does best, letting go, moving on.” ch 14

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Child death, Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, and Kidnapping