Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

The Pisces by Melissa Broder

46 reviews

isaarusilor's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Sexual content, Mental illness, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Animal death, Addiction, and Grief

codecat's review against another edition

dark funny reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Mental illness, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Suicidal thoughts

dnllbchr's review against another edition

challenging dark funny sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Sexual assault

micahp's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

2.0

This book had an interesting concept, but the overall themes and development of the main character and surrounding cast were disappointing. The main character's entire personality and experience revolved around her obsession with love, which made for a repetitive story with little development. The tragedy of the ending <death of the dog she was caring for> was sad and unnecessary to the plot. The trigger warnings of this book needs to be lengthy.  
This was disappointing to read after Broder's Milkfed, with the plot and characters needing more fleshing out and significantly more editing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Mental illness, Self harm, Addiction, Infidelity, Animal cruelty, Forced institutionalization, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Pregnancy, Death of parent, and Miscarriage

ddaria's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

I‘m not sure how I feel about the book. In parts I found it genius, in parts the inner monologue of the protagonist was a little too on the nose for me. But loved the genre bending style of it.

the dog storyline was too much for me emotionally

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Animal death, and Addiction

s_lorenz's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Animal cruelty, Excrement, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, and Toxic friendship

baguettegay's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Animal death

lavenderpagess's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Cursing, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

roraisabella's review against another edition

dark sad fast-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

2.75

this book was enjoyable, but i just couldn’t get past how insufferable the main character is. she is terrible and selfish and while that might be the point i don’t know, i just couldn’t enjoy her never-ending monologues. her internalised misogyny is too much. the love scenes were good but not a lot else. don’t read this if suicide themes, animal abuse and addiction trigger you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Addiction, Excrement, Suicide, Blood, Car accident, Misogyny, Medical content, Death, Alcohol, Animal death, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

aweso10's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-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

4.25

this was such a fun and interesting read! such a mix between contemporary/litfic, fantasy and romance- i loved the allegories of sappho and mommy issues, all of the raw and raunchy mosfegh-esque imagery, the setting, the wild characters, all of it! broder is a mastermind:))

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Animal death