Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

The Wicked King, by Holly Black

16 reviews

kynthebookworm's review

adventurous dark tense fast-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

This was an outright masterpiece honestly. I loved it, the twists and turns, the way the plot completely surprises you, the writing, and the characters were all absolutely fantastic to read. A wonderful sequel!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Addiction, and Drug use

maple_dove's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse and Sexual content

Minor: Infidelity, Vomit, Addiction, and Death of parent

Parental neglect (moderate)

lapis_lazuli's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense 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

4.75

OMGGGGGG THE ENDING I CANT-

Spoiler

SCREW HIM OH MY FUXKING GOD I WANT TO KILL HIM MY GOD

Really good book tho, I was driven by it, wondering who was the traitor, who betrayed her. My attention was kept at every word. Extraordinary book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Sexual content, Alcohol, Blood, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Vomit, War, Sexual assault, Abandonment, and Addiction

kristlas's review against another edition

adventurous funny inspiring mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, War, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Kidnapping, Genocide, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Torture, Classism, Sexual content, Vomit, Abandonment, Bullying, and Alcohol

revived_reading's review

adventurous emotional funny tense 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

4.75

Absolutely loved this book! However, as with book 1, the only reason it doesn't get 5 stars is because I felt some of the wording was a bit odd. Otherwise, another amazing read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/injury detail, Blood, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Sexual content, and Torture

Minor: Death of parent, Drug use, and Alcoholism

avajhall's review

• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Alcohol, Confinement, Kidnapping, Addiction, and Torture

katvou's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Moderate: Blood and Kidnapping

Minor: Addiction, Injury/injury detail, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Death of parent, Drug abuse, and Vomit

lyd41's review

adventurous informative mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Overall, good. Didn't have sequel syndrome thank god. Not as character focused as last book, more focused on Jude balancing relationships, good and bad. Lots of discussion on political strategy.  No major problems with the book! :D I wish a certain pivotal part of the book

Spoiler

Jude's MONTH LONG hostage situation

was greater emphasized, as that event was a domino effect regarding the decisions of so many characters close to Jude. That event single handedly determined the last chunk of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, War, Sexual content, Death, Drug abuse, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Injury/injury detail, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction and Abandonment

skylerher's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, and Kidnapping

Moderate: War and Sexual content

Minor: Addiction and Death of parent

nicamooch's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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? Yes

4.0

The first 40% of the book was a bit slow. I think this one is shorter than the Wicked King but it took me 3x as long to read. I still liked and enjoyed the plot but I think the pace could’ve been picked up a little and there were chapters committed to events/plot advancement that maybe could’ve been condensed. Overall, this was an enjoyable continuation to the first book and I couldn’t believe that ending 😭. It’s like Holly Black heard me think “well if ******* is **** and Jude is *****” then what’s the conflict in the next book? 😭😭😭😭😭 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Injury/injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Sexual content and War