Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Daqui a Cinco Anos... by Rebecca Serle

27 reviews

ourhandsfull's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-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

3.5

This could have been a 5⭐️ book for me, had it not been for the description. It’s a bait & switch and beneath the beautiful quality of this novel. It was unnecessary to mislead readers.  I strongly encourage readers to check trigger warnings for this book before reading it and know that they are not just part of the plot but actually form the whole novel. It’s a wonderful story. Just not exactly the story sold in the official plot summary. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Vomit, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Child death, Infidelity, and Abandonment

Minor: Alcohol

atamano's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Grief

Moderate: Medical content, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual content

sassyyabby's review against another edition

emotional mysterious relaxing medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer

Moderate: Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

emilayday's review against another edition

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? No

4.0

This was not the book I expected and I was my getting mad, but I trusted the process, and then it made me sad but I liked the conclusion. She brought it together in a way that wasn't what we thought and i wasn't hopeful that'd be the case. But it's definitely not a romantic chick lit book, it's heavy and sad.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Vomit, Medical content, and Alcohol

sarahflanders's review against another edition

emotional sad 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Infertility, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

erica_reads_things's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

A great, heartbreaking read. I liked the twist and where the story lead to. A different take on a love story, but a heartfelt love story nonetheless. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Terminal illness

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Medical content, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Child abuse, Vomit, and Pregnancy

cielo's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

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

3.25

Not a love story about romance, but a love story about friendship. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Infertility, Terminal illness, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, and Alcohol

read_with_riley's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Terminal illness

Moderate: Child death, Death, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Alcohol

Minor: Abortion and Pregnancy

daybreakreads's review against another edition

emotional sad 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

2.0

I read the synopsis and it bought it might be similar to “The Midnight Library”. After getting about halfway through and realizing that wasn’t the case, I almost gave up on this entirely. I would say I didn’t like the first 75% of this book. The characters were flat and not very likable; you had a Type A Jewish lawyer nerd (seemed a bit stereotypical) and a carefree ditzy blonde dullard who lives entirely “in the moment” at the whims of daddy’s credit card. There were random details that didn’t make sense (I could’ve sworn early on David’s eyes were said to be brown, but later on it said they were green, and after it said Aaron had green eyes…)

The ending was a bit different than I anticipated. No major plot twists, but I thought it was ended nicely. 

Seemed a bit oversexualized for women in their 30s though

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Death, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Abortion

marionlundqvist's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective sad fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol