Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak

19 reviews

mariaminthebooks's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Transphobia, Violence, Grief, Abandonment

hanamany's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Incest, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Transphobia, Religious bigotry, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Sexual harassment

moonchildjuli's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective 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: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Violence, Police brutality, Trafficking, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment

alomie's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A story of a woman's life as told through her memories in the last 10 minutes and 38 seconds as her brain shuts down.

I found this story very moving and hard to read in parts a tragic story and her abrupt death. There is hope mixed in there with the 5 friends and their stories but also some great sadness.

A comment on Sex work in Istanbul, the struggles of the trans community and the harsh realities of a repressed nation and its obvious disdain for women.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Homophobia, Incest, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Grief, Abortion, Sexual harassment

bethnash's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief

Moderate: Child abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Police brutality, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Murder

Minor: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Self harm, Trafficking, Mass/school shootings, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol

reb_reads's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Transphobia, Islamophobia, Trafficking

creepycrawlybookworm's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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A beautiful, emotional story, that covers so much ground in such a clever way. I will be thinking about it for a long time. I loved the very start and the second half best, especially the stories of Leila and her friends, and would recommend the audiobook highly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Pedophilia

Moderate: Child death, Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Xenophobia, Grief

Minor: Addiction, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Trafficking, Religious bigotry

julied's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark funny reflective sad slow-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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, Police brutality, Trafficking, Murder

vampiretree's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Miscarriage

Moderate: Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault

Minor: Addiction, Self harm, Transphobia