Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

The Terrible by Yrsa Daley-Ward

10 reviews

rach_reads_books's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

drskaninchen's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Racism, Terminal illness, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Child abuse

veve_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

ktrain3900's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

This is not an easy read, not a long read but not fast either. The forms and formatting worked for me. It's not meant to be a poetry/prose divide in any traditional sense, but rather I found it fit the movement of the pieces/story. It breaks what would otherwise be very hard to digest. There is a lot of terrible here, a lot of difficult, but all captured both bluntly and genuinely. No pity, no feeling sorry, just life, and life is hard. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, and Sexual content

Minor: Cancer

kaymichelle's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Racism, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Homophobia

penofpossibilities's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Antisemitism

ambergentleman's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Racial slurs, Racism, and Antisemitism

ducksfloat's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Truly stunning. I got so wrapped up in Yrsa I found myself wanting to scream and cry (well cry did happen) poetic masterpiece.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, and Alcohol

davidreyno's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

Mostly free verse, not my favorite; some memorable passages, imagery. Incrediblely honest, blunt memoir. Eye opening.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

heleendb's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective fast-paced

4.5

charged coming-of-age memoir that is the kind of beauty of splintered glass. wish i read it some years ago, but then again i'm not sure a younger me could've handled it very well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, and Self harm