Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

27 reviews

krdavis02's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

sadiefc's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Murder, and Stalking

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Grief, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Suicide attempt

jaimeekate's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

1.0

This book was awful.
I could feel it's star rating slowly dipping lower and lower, and I was prepared to give it 2 stars right up until it's ending, which was so bad it mad me angry.
Probably the worst book I've read this year. Yikes.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual harassment, Animal death, and Alcoholism

djoseph's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Stalking, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Animal cruelty

julianareynolds's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Self harm, Murder, Medical content, Gore, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Sexual assault

charlottes_library's review against another edition

tense fast-paced

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

3.25

Personally, I didn’t enjoy this book. It was alright but it felt juvenile to me. There was a lot of potential with the plot but i found the characters static and lacking motives. It is a murder mystery with a shock twist ending that was surprising and frankly the only interesting thing about the book. It is a very obvious attempt at creating a dark academia atmosphere but its done lazily (ie. chucking in ancient greek and mythology references). I understand this is supposed to create some deeper meaning considering the whole plot, setting and characters are related to greek mythology but it feels clunky and tacky. This story is Michaelides’ attempt at replicating the success of The Silent Patient and you know how I know that? A filler character was added to (for no plot or character driven reason) conveniently mention the main character and key selling points of The Silent Patient. Self-promo in the middle of a alright but not entirely gripping “thriller”. I recommend this for someone into YA fiction as it is not a difficult read. It is worded to get the plot across; this works for some but I prefer a book i have to think about. The literary equivalent of a lifetime movie: time-passer that requires minimal thinking but nothing mind-blowing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Murder

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Blood, and Gore

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Pedophilia

its not technically incest but it feels like emotional incest/manipulation

wrenxavier's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Stalking, and Violence

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Pedophilia, and Suicide attempt