Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

I Was Born for This by Alice Oseman

124 reviews

bumblebee's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

Moderate: Cursing and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Blood, Medical content, and Outing

georgiaaaaa's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

math_scooter's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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

5.0

I was born for this af Alice Oseman er en bog jeg vil anbefale til alle fans af hvad som helst, og også alle andre faktisk. Jeg har hørt lydbogen to gange nu og den kan varmt anbefales, selvom bogen nok er lige så god i skriftlig form. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Violence, Outing, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Eating disorder, Rape, Transphobia, and Medical content

this_is_lee's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring 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

5.0

This book absolutely blew me away. It was nothing like what I expected, which was refreshing. I’ve never been horribly interested into fame/celebrity storylines but Alice crafted this so incredibly beautifully that I couldn’t not enjoy every minute. It has a slow start that snowballs into some breathtaking twists. 
I found this book to be so important because of the representation. Angel is a hijabi Muslim and Jimmy is not only a famous singer but is also a Transgender Christian. Reading through the perspective of these two characters came to be quite insightful. Everyone felt 3-dimensional and had real and relevant struggles. 
Overall, I learned a lot while reading this book in addition to enjoying the hell out of it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Cursing, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Stalking, Outing, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, and Grief

bobisthecoolest's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-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

4.75

This book is near perfect. Definitely a must read if you had/have an obsession with a (boy) band. This books talks about what happens when artists and fans meet and how fucked up fan culture can be sometimes. Will make you think 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Stalking, and Outing

Minor: Biphobia, Racism, Transphobia, and Injury/Injury detail

annalynn34's review against another edition

emotional medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

emilycrowleyyy's review against another edition

emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, and Alcohol

Minor: Blood and Outing

sapphic_antiquarian's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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? Yes

4.0

I read the rest of Alice's works a while ago, but I always put this one off as I just did not think it would be for me. And I was so wrong. Whilst it's not an instant reread like Loveless and Radio silence are for me, it's still very sweet and cute and displays both the good and bad aspects of fandom. Like always with Alice's work, this book is very in touch with internet culture and the ways which fandom works, nothing feels forced or put of place. The characters are diverse without feeling shoehorned in and they are all quite well rounded. I also love how this book does not focus on romance, which for some reason I thought it did. 

I almost thought it was too fast paced, sometimes so much stuff was happening all in the span of a week, it was a bit hectic. Now, I'm probably a bit too old, and a bit too far removed from those crazy fandom days to thoroughly get into this book, but it was still such a fun and hopeful read, which also can spark conversation regarding the implications of toxic or overbearing fandom culture. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, and Alcohol

clairew97's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful tense medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body horror, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

lyd41's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-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

4.25

The premise of this book was completely unique. Oseman decided to tell a story seldom told before. I loved themes of parasocial love and fandom culture and living as a celebrity and struggling with mental illness. This book would have been nice for me to read a bit younger 🥲. The exposition was a bit too slow, but the fast paced, tense, action filled ending made up for it in a way. Each character felt like a real being with motives and interests, which i enjoyed. I also thoroughly did not like some characters, just like real life!!! :D 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Stalking, Outing, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death, Homophobia, Self harm, and Transphobia