Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Água Fresca Para As Flores by Valérie Perrin

5 reviews

sephypear's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Child death

Minor: Physical abuse

aleilvandrea's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cancer, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Homophobia, Self harm, Vomit, Stalking, and Lesbophobia

filipa_maia's review against another edition

emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad slow-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

4.0

I didn't expect to like this book as much as I did, but it grabbed me from the first page.

More than a story about love and loss, this is a story about emotions, how to deal with them and how to accept the things that life throws our way. This book is a brilliant journey through grief, self discovering and love.

Just to point out a few negatives (and why this wasn't a 'five star' book): I think this book was unnecessarily long (too descriptive about things that don't matter to the plot) and sad (there is not a single happy couple throughout the book, and practically 99% of the stories are about people who betrayed each other).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cursing, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Animal death and Cancer

mightyfrenchbookworm's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.75

Violette est la gardienne du cimetière. On assiste au flashback pour comprendre comment elle s'est rendu à faire ce travail peu commun. On aborde sa relation avec son mari, son enfant, les gens qui viennent se recueillir auprès de leur défunt, etc. On aborde plusieurs sujets sensibles, la mort (bien entendu) et le deuil, l'adultère, les relations toxiques, etc. Quelques personnages sont complexes, et pas tout à fait comme on les a étiquetés. J'ai trouvé l'écriture incroyable même si les dialogues étaient parfois un peu fade. Les chapitres étaient courts ce qui faisait en sorte que j'étais incapable de déposer le livre. J'ai beaucoup aimé les citations en tête de chapitre. Au final, un livre très émouvant, lire ici que j'ai pleuré. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Alcoholism

emiliesreading's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism and Rape