Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton

3 reviews

zoeelora's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

tomas_lw's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Kidnapping, and Murder

Minor: Animal death and Alcohol

yogomagpie's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

1.5

I’m disappointed. I like urban fantasy and really wanted to like this book but there were too many issues for me to give it 2 stars. I give it an extra 1/2 of a star because it had all the ingredients for a good story but the execution was too choppy and sloppy. I finished the book with so many questions, and looked up wiki pages about the story and characters. The wikis were clearer than the book itself.

Every character felt flat and boring, and I think it may be because there are so many of them and not enough time/pages to really develop them beyond the most basic personalities. I didn’t care about any of them.

The whole Nikolaos thing was infuriating. She hired (well, forced) a vampire slayer to find out who is slaying vampires. Why? Did I miss something? And then she meddles and interferes with Anita’s efforts to solve the case. After a long slog through this book, and Anita going on and on about the terror she felt towards Nikolaos, the final fight scene was pathetic. Two humans against a 1000 y.o. mega-powerful vampire, over as quickly as it started. Okay.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcohol