Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Converses entre amics by Sally Rooney, Núria Parés Sellarés

68 reviews

marthaalice's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

bookish_5280's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

I read Normal People just recently and felt that I absolutely had to get my hands on another Sally Rooney book immediately. I had this lurching feeling in my stomach starting this book, fearing that it wouldn't live up to her debut novel. All those thoughts disappeared within a couple pages. Rooney has this incredible, irresistible ability to encapsulate little moments--the little pleasures, the little disappointments, the little beautiful details--all the things that might seem mundane and unimportant she surrounds with this stunning, heartthrobbingly accurate language. You read it and you just have to close the book and sit back and think, "wow. that is something so normal, so everyday, that i've completely ignored it. and yet it's so incredibly beautiful." Frances and Bobbi and Nick and Melissa are all complicated--the book, at its core, isn't about cheating or marriage or romance. It's about acknowledging how all these intricate moving parts (traumas, previous relationships, financial hardships, psychologically engrained power dynamics) play into the formation of somebody's life path. Sally Rooney somehow manages to let the reader live inside multiple characters' minds simultaneously and use this omniscience to reflect on how these people's histories got them to the place where they are right now. At multiple points in the book, everything is so utterly confused and chaotic and dysfunctional and depressing and yet you see these characters' thoughts with complete clarity, and it's absolutely magical. Sally Rooney's books are this whole other world with genuine, real characters experiencing life at its harshest and most disorienting--it's a world with people we might know, with the toughest, rawest situations, and yet also the most compelling, hopeful moments. 

"You live through certain things before you understand them."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Self harm, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Drug use

shreeyukta's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Blood

Moderate: Addiction and Mental illness

helenamichelle's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Toxic friendship

xashleyxvix's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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

Moderate: Addiction, Chronic illness, Mental illness, and Self harm

raccoonteeth's review against another edition

emotional reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, and Alcohol

katejackson's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Self harm, and Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Infertility

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, and Miscarriage

saraavowlerr's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

I love her books so much bc they never feel like a story, they feel like life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Cursing, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, and Toxic friendship

anneroza'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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Chronic illness, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcoholism, Infertility, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Biphobia, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

brownsugar25's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Never in my life hated the characters in the book before, but this is a first for me. Especially the protagonist. The writing in itself is beautiful & relatable & simple, but its just the characters. 

This book is easily one of my most annotated books because I was so angry & I had a lot to say. There were so many negative traits added to her, there was so much unlikability to each of them. And I was getting hopeful to be honest. 

But of course, Frances disgusted me towards the end. Just embarrassing for her self-worth & pathetic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Gaslighting