Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Fruta Madura by Sarah Rose Etter

35 reviews

candofett's review against another edition

emotional fast-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Pandemic/Epidemic

theforest's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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

Moderate: Abortion

Minor: Addiction and Emotional abuse

sophia_'s review against another edition

dark funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Pregnancy

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Abortion, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Excrement, Vomit, Alcohol, and Classism

jdunn1's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, Abortion, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

dustghosts's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual content, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, and Toxic friendship

rachaelwho's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Deeply depressed and depressing. Everything felt inevitable, though for a brief shining moment here and there I thought that

Cassie would destroy the company before she died

.  That was the main will she/won't she of the book for me, otherwise I could see it all in front of me, but not in a bad way. It did take me a weirdly long time to realize that

Cassie had reproduced her relationship with her parents in her friends

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I would not have called this magical realism. There's no indication that the black hole is literally, physically there.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Infertility, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Police brutality, Colonisation, and Pandemic/Epidemic

kayleighr's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Mental illness, and Abortion

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Excrement, Pregnancy, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

sideshowsips's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Drug use, Suicide, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Pandemic/Epidemic

whatellisreadnext's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful reflective sad 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

3.0

I will admit that Cassie had grown on me by the end, but the last 20 pages can't make up for the majority of the book. I struggled with the literal manifestation of a black hole to represent her depression and her very copy and paste back story. I did enjoy the weird off-base parts of the narrative, and I really liked the structure and how Etter used dictionary definitions to give the reader examples of Cassie's past life. This was clever and well thought out, and I appreciated it. I could have done without the cocaine habit. It didn't feel necessary to the story. It was just another device to show how reckless and depressed our narrator was. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Mental illness

noraquigs's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-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

5.0

if a novel has a carmen maria machado blurb, you know it’s about to be poignant and devastating. ripe tears apart the american dream shred by shred. capitalism doesn’t work even for the best and brightest of workers. and all there really is left is small moments of joy in the absolute devastating absurdity of modern life. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Abortion, Fire/Fire injury, and Pandemic/Epidemic