Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

The Vine Witch by Luanne G. Smith

5 reviews

akgeekgirl's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Forced institutionalization, and Blood

Minor: Homophobia and Fire/Fire injury

fixxon's review

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, and Murder

ladynavalon's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

1.0

So, this started as a 10 stars book. A with who makes wine? Come on! How I didn't read this first? How I didn't write it myself? Just by few first pages of this book is a 20 stars read, the first scen with Elena breaking free from the curse is 🤯
But by page 100 you are really wondering what are you doing reading this book! The characters don't according to what they are suppose to be, there is no chemistry between the main couple and come on! The villain is there from the beggining, sipping wine and eating biscuits and surely laughting because Elena is nothing like she was promised on page one and the vengeful witch who broke free from the curse just became a whinning, stupid girl. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Abandonment, and Alcohol

anastashamarie's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious relaxing medium-paced

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

4.0

🎧 Note that I listened to the audio book of this, which may have swayed my opinion because it is a GREAT story to have read to you, and the narrator was delightfully soothing.

🍷 This comes across as a grown-up fairytale with vivid descriptions of wine and food thrown in for good measure. Set in the French countryside. Simple magic system. Mystery and clearing one's name as the central storyline. Not a lot of brain power required, but not boring either. Just an enjoyable late summer read, especially as part of the evenings getting cooler and breezy where I live.

🌾 -1 star because the romance was too much telling and not enough showing (honestly, it was hardly a part of the story) and because of the villains ridiculously long monologue. But regardless of that, I very much enjoyed this beginning to end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Torture, Religious bigotry, and Murder

Minor: Sexual content and Injury/Injury detail

whirl's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

Nice easy read, nothing too weird or shocking but an interesting world and use of magic and I enjoyed it 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Torture, Blood, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction and Death of parent