Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Powiedz wilkom, że jestem w domu by Carol Rifka Brunt

15 reviews

inirac's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.0

Overall feels like the most accurate representation of making decisions as a teenager, so we’ll done there. But had to really convince myself to keep reading half way thru. I guess I’m glad I did? I don’t know how I feel yet

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Death, and Homophobia

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Vomit, and Alcohol

Minor: Eating disorder

lvjy's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.25

There is something so completely raw about this book that really caught me off guard. 

The way June talks about her uncle, and Toby to an extent, made me deeply uncomfortable but i’m willing to be a bit forgiving because i remember being fourteen and having a messy family where i didn’t get to see people for years and that was a weird time. but it’s definitely something that marked the book down for me. 

depiction of the aids crisis, however, and the way that it affected the people involved was beautiful in a terrible way. my heart breaks for those who we lost and whose stories have died with them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Terminal illness, and Death

Moderate: Alcohol, Incest, and Grief

relin's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

It was interesting enough to finish, but I don't think this book was for me. I struggled with some of the ways that the relationships and characters were shown especially. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Grief, Homophobia, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Classism, Fatphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Deportation, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Forced institutionalization, Drug use, Confinement, Alcohol, and Abandonment

nat_montego's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.0

Heartbreakingly sad

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Homophobia, Chronic illness, and Death

Minor: Alcohol

gondorgirl's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Chronic illness, Death, and Grief

tarajoy90's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Alcohol

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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

3.0

June's crush on her gay uncle, and later his boyfriend, was not handled super well. Every adult in her life pretended to not see it or treated it in a very "oh ho ho she'll grow out of it" way. This inappropriate crush on adult figures is a way neglected children reach out for attention. As June and her sister are left to their own devices during tax season you can really see where the susceptibility to substance abuse (alcohol and cigarettes) and need for adult attention comes from. This acceptance/ignorance of the crush gives the story an incest or 'attraction to minors' feel when it was June primarily reaching out for romantic attention and the adults around her redirecting her but not outright rejecting her.

Spoiler

There is a scene where she kisses an adult on the mouth or fantasizes about doing so.  June pretends Toby is her lover when she takes him from the hospital via taxi to her home, where he dies.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Homophobia, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Gaslighting

Minor: Pedophilia, Racism, Ableism, Hate crime, Incest, and Adult/minor relationship

About 88% through the book it is mentioned that 'the wolves in the woods' were several feral dogs that ended up being shot. It was an unnecessary detail.

nicoleme1212's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, and Death

Moderate: Alcohol and Homophobia

atamano's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Homophobia, Grief, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Body shaming, Alcohol, Drug use, and Medical content

micklesreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

This book was unbelievably good. Through June's eyes, I felt like I was a teenager again, when everything is changing and everything is life and death, except for June and Finn and Toby, it really is. This was an incredibly moving book that I'm going to be thinking about for a long long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Terminal illness, Grief, Alcohol, and Death