Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Crooked Kingdom, by Leigh Bardugo

23 reviews

dkaps's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Kidnapping, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Ableism, and Addiction

Minor: Death of parent, Drug abuse, War, Drug use, Alcohol, Child abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Injury/injury detail, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Trafficking, Gaslighting, Adult/minor relationship, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Racism, Slavery, and Torture

fanhhb's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Drug use, Kidnapping, Death, and Murder

Minor: Cursing and Death of parent

seren's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/injury detail, Torture, Child abuse, Murder, Drug use, Violence, Death, Drug abuse, and Classism

Moderate: Cursing, Addiction, Cultural appropriation, Trafficking, Slavery, Racism, Gun violence, Toxic friendship, and Ableism

Minor: Child death and Alcohol

laneys_library's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Addiction, Child death, and Chronic illness

niamhstorme's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Torture, Grief, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Injury/injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Violence, and Trafficking

Moderate: Addiction, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, Slavery, Alcohol, and Emotional abuse

emmabogush's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Drug use and Alcohol

Minor: Kidnapping and Sexual assault

Major character death - Brothels and pleasure houses are mentioned often - one of the main characters was kidnapped and trafficked into one of the houses in her past and it comes up in her storyline - I don’t remember any graphic or detailed descriptions of her past but it does come up multiple times in the book

anime917's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Death, Murder, and Alcohol

wet_towlette's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny fast-paced

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

4.5

I truly enjoyed this book. The writing is so elegant and all of the characters are so unique and so beautiful. It defies many ya tropes and you would be ridiculous to actively dislike this book. It kept me on my toes. I never knew what was part of the plan and what wasn’t but it all still made sense. The world and world building is fascinating. I do, however, have two main criticisms. Firstly, and probably least importantly, I found the writing to be unnecessarily dense at times. I understand the world is complicated and this definitely made the scene clearer, I still got bored occasionally. Secondly, I thought the ending was lacking. I’m not going to go into much detail because it’s not really important and probably mostly a personal preference. But for the amount of time that went into exploring not only these characters but also their relationships, I feel like there should’ve been a bit more. This kinda excludes kaz and inej.

Spoiler

Because after everything they endured it was impossible for them to have this grandiose ending. Their relationship can’t heal each other from all of that trauma. But bro maybe just like a hug or something would’ve been nice, you know?

I think that’s all I really have to say. Overall, an amazing duology and definitely worth the hype. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Slavery, Murder, Kidnapping, Blood, Injury/injury detail, Gun violence, Confinement, and Violence

Moderate: Trafficking, Alcohol, and Grief

relin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

The relationships in this book are so well done, the dramatic tension is so high and the last section had me in tears! I was rooting for everyone and was still surprised when everything came together the way it did. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Outing, Blood, Classism, Death, Gun violence, Injury/injury detail, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Grief, Emotional abuse, Racism, Medical content, Cursing, Chronic illness, Alcohol, Addiction, and Ableism

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Slavery, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Confinement, Child death, Child abuse, Drug use, Mass/school shootings, and Sexual violence

For one of the final scenes there is shooting into a crowd

Spoiler

but it is one shot done by a person who will only hit one intended target for the heist to go off

. There is also a plague,

Spoiler

though it is also manufactured and doesn't harm people, but causes most of the city to go into confinement

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danicampbell0506's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Trafficking, and Abandonment

Moderate: Death, Sexism, Sexual assault, Addiction, Child abuse, Drug use, Racism, and Torture

Minor: Alcohol, Child death, Cursing, and Death of parent