Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Allt jag vet om kärlek by Dolly Alderton

211 reviews

allydoessomereading's review against another edition

funny reflective medium-paced

3.75

Dolly Alderton reflect on her twenties and the love she felt and experienced in her twenties with such richness and passion. I feel envious of the depth to all the relationships she reflects on, and I feel comforted in learning about the existentialism surrounding love and ageing is experienced by almost all.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Terminal illness, Grief, and Alcohol

evasophias's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

a solid read <3 felt like having a convo w bestie but that’s bc she annotated it. LOVE U IZZY!!! anyway very cute and funny and spoke fax. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

daryn's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Sexual content, and Alcohol

Moderate: Medical content and Grief

graceboyd's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Alcohol

milaju's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny inspiring sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, and Alcohol

lifeonasofa's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Cancer, Child death, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

lara_r's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Pregnancy

linnybear's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

I was dreading it for the first 35% of the book, picking it up was like making your way through the torment mostly because I found it utterly unrelatable. Not that everything I read has to be relatable but I didn't find it funny nor interesting to read about an abandoned sheltered child turned out alcoholic who somehow found a great pack of friends and a job despite their problems with various substances. 

I stuck through it mainly for the writing, but then I cried as I read the chapter about Florence, and I thought how important the ending chapters would be to the younger me. Just proving the author's point that you don't need constant validation from anyone (especially a man), that you are enough, and showing it through her own experiences. 

It's not something groundbreaking that wasn't said before, quite frankly it has been said many many times but in this book it doesn't sound cheesy or condescending. And I actually quite liked how it wasn't really about love as much as it was about friendships, loss and making peace with yourself. I'd be happy human being if fiction authors write friendships exactly like in this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Grief, and Alcohol

julierambaeck's review against another edition

Didn’t understand what I would gain from the story

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

lindasoderlundd's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Cursing, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship