Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Água Fresca Para As Flores by Valérie Perrin

7 reviews

jo845's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Cancer, Suicide, Vomit, and Pregnancy

Beautiful translation with lots of unexpected twists. Sad but I didn’t cry. Lots of choices made by the characters that I don’t agree with but I couldn’t put it down and finished in two days.

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

weepingstones's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

Minor: Cancer, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Terminal illness

srm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

What a stunningly beautiful book. And such unique characters, who I just love. Honestly, I'm a little too emotional after just finishing it to write much more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Grief, and Abandonment

Moderate: Suicide and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Sexual content and Alcohol

paperquilt'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

thetainaship's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Rape, Car accident, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Minor: Physical abuse