Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Twisted Games by Ana Huang

135 reviews

unicornbanzaiiking's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous inspiring mysterious fast-paced

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Just good. Better than the first book in the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual content

Moderate: Alcoholism, Murder

Minor: Drug abuse

gracewingham's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Alcoholism

isabel_np's review against another edition

2.25

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse

Moderate: Drug abuse

Minor: War

leerasb335's review against another edition

2.0

slow-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Alcoholism

sibard's review against another edition

5.0

emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Misogyny, Death of parent, Alcohol, Classism

destinynichole11's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, War

I loved the book and I loved the story line however I did find it pretty repetitive throughout the book. I did love the pop ups of the other characters as well like Alex and Ava

jlhunkins's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny inspiring lighthearted relaxing medium-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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Physical abuse, Grief, Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Incest, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship

marygg3's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful 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

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My dream trope, that for some reason I've read almost nothing about, delivered perfectly. 
It's weird because Alex was more intriguing for me, but I loved Rhys more, in a squishy-heart kind of way. The smut was also hotter in the previous book, but somehow better here. I don't know, I guess it depends on your taste. And for me, the praise kink is it.
The time jumps were actually pretty great. The whole relationship development felt realistic and I just love these guys together.
Even though I'm not used to the reverse power dynamic, I loved reading this couple, with a complete opposite vibe as the previous one.
Can't wait for the next one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Abandonment

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Death of parent, War

erwikka's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I love Rhys and Bridget. I’m a sucker for a bodyguard/royalty trope. Again I would like to say I love how Ana writes trauma and the way it completely changes a person. For better or worse what happens to you shapes you and I think she does a great job with that. I really enjoy her writing style and will definitely finish the series. Just not sure when since the next book is about people I don’t particularly care about. The banter in this book is top notch and they are like a drug that you just can’t put down. I will say I think they are a little too long this one especially since it had to explain all the stuff they were doing during the event of book one. Definitely check your trigger warnings for this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gun violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicide

Minor: Sexism, Death of parent, Classism

kawaii_rose's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Alcoholism, Sexism, Alcohol

Minor: Violence, Kidnapping, War