Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Scout's Honor by Lily Anderson

4 reviews

mackef's review

adventurous emotional lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Violence

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Alcohol and Drug use

Focus on PTSD

chamaeleontis's review

emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Bullying, Sexual content, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Animal death, and Violence

onceandfuturereaders's review

adventurous reflective slow-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

Buffy meets Stranger Things and add in some major PTSD and anxiety and you’ve got Scout’s Honor. It took me awhile to get into this book, which is typical when I’m reading a main character’s pov and they have anxiety (I can find that to be triggering). Once I got used to Prue’s voice, I was really able to dive into this one and enjoy it. 

I wasn’t a huge fan of The Beast at first, but she ended up being my absolute favorite character. The baby birds were all unique and made a great team and I loved seeing Prue changing the way she trained her scouts. I did not like how no one in Prue’s family, not even her father most of the time, seemed to care that she was clearly struggling with her PTSD and anxiety. It was hard to read at times, but emphasized the found family aspect a lot. 

All in all, I thought this was a great book and I always love to see a badass female main character. I do think this book being tagged as LGBTQIA is a stretch as the queer side character is only mentioned a couple times, but there was tons of other diversity amongst the characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Violence, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Grief and Child death

Minor: Alcohol and Drug use

imstephtacular's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Medical content, Bullying, Mental illness, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Blood, Drug use, Grief, Gore, and Death

Minor: Misogyny, Alcohol, and Homophobia