Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

209 reviews

vanessatombolini's review against another edition

4.25

emotional reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Alcohol

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Death of parent

Minor: Misogyny, Pandemic/Epidemic

lindsaywalsvick's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Death of parent

_sanikaaa_'s review against another edition

4.5

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use

hinkleh's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Violence, Vomit, Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts

tessalessa11's review against another edition

2.5

dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death of parent

antidietleah's review against another edition

5.0

emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Grief, Alcohol

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism, Infidelity

mballard4's review against another edition

4.0

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Sally Rooney did it again writing so eloquently on the complexities of human relationships. Learned a bit about chess along the way as well! Not a 5 because it was very slow start and would have liked getting Sylvia and Naomi’s voices directly vs through Peter’s POV.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts

georgiasmths's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

Moderate: Alcoholism, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts

deliberate_dreamer's review against another edition

3.75

emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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“You take conversation too seriously. Life isn’t just talking, you know.” 

The novel “Intermezzo” deeply redefines the meaning of vulnerable narrative point of views. Appropriately titled, the work follows characters in waiting, in between chapters—of relationships, of careers, of success, of leaning into what they most need for their lives. Much like many intermezzos I’ve also played musically, there is also a pervading sense of intimate melancholy, forced isolation, whiffs of dreams. We find deep dives into emotions and deep desperation—to be loved, to feel loved, to revisit love, or to reject love with other themes or melodies we think we must embrace.

This book is so well composed, yet my feelings were vacillatingly mixed. I definitely felt biases toward and against various characters in their hypocrisies, but found the varying point of views always intriguing. At times, the vivid intimacy element is haunting, at times painfully awkward, but I appreciate the author’s efforts to construct something human in all shapes of real.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Medical trauma, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

vonnette's review against another edition

3.75

reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I really appreciated this books great discussion on family and friend dynamics.  Very good show of all the difficulties within families.   Discussions between characters was thoughtful and helped me think through things.   Was a little annoying that it seemed the author had to hit upon every PC topic.  The thing i thought most distracted from the book and a reason I probably won't recommend it is the several XXX scenes.   Very graphic like I was hoping for a soft born book when I grabbed this.   Thought it was totally unneeded and the author was 100% trying to cross a many genres as possible. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse