Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

115 reviews

bookishpaula's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Grief, Death, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Mental illness, and Murder

librariangeorgia's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-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? Yes

3.0

I’d been so looking forward to reading this one. From the blurb it sounded really interesting. However, I found it to be quite average. 

 

It was slow paced, so slow that I would stop paying attention. It also seemed to jump between settings mid-chapter that I couldn’t follow where the story was at. 

 

This book tried to be too many things in one go and it just didn’t work unfortunately. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Alcoholism, Blood, Murder, Death, and Animal death

avokaitotoast's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

short review: incredible book until the last 30 pages

long ish review: i really did love this book. the set up was so good. the unreliable narrator was so well done and really had you questioning what was going to happen next at all times. i feel like the build up was just so good that the climax ended up being pretty anticlimactic. it felt very rushed at the end and therefore a bit disappointing. that being said — i’d still rec it! it’s a really good read (more of a psychological thriller than a witchy-magical-book fyi!!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol and Animal death

Minor: Alcoholism

milly2222's review

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Alcohol, Gore, Grief, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Alcoholism

Minor: Animal death and Gun violence

lorepineiro's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Child abuse

Minor: Eating disorder, Animal death, and Vomit

monaluffy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Yes! A dark academia book with witchy vibes that I LIKED!!!!! I wasn't dissapointed AT ALL, Love to hate this characters!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Death, and Classism

Moderate: Body horror and Emotional abuse

Minor: Eating disorder

lennatheunicorncat's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Murder, Alcoholism, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, and Death

Minor: Mental illness, Bullying, Gaslighting, Grief, Lesbophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, and Murder

hannahandabook's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Alcoholism

werewolvesnotswearwolves's review against another edition

• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Grief, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Blood, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Classism, Gore, Violence, Bullying, Mental illness, and Toxic friendship

izardfg's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

1.5

Honestly the book was not good, the writing is decent, but the plot is bad and the "omg twists" you can see coming from a mile away. The book's ending doesn't really feel like it concluded it's own themes. And

the end reveal of the main character's memory being of her burying Alex doesn't make sense for a few reasons, firstly it says she dug her up after 3 feet, then it says she buried her in two different locations. But even assuming that this is her finally remembering the events correctly or it's her making herself believe these events occured there were two separate police investigations on campus, if there was a freshly dug grave next to the house she lived in it would've been noticed and the police were actively looking for a dead girl. Like yeah it's the unreliable narrator trope but there's unreliable narrator then there's you don't remember what you wrote and who revealed which details.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Gun violence