Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

The Best of Friends by Lucinda Berry

8 reviews

bavery's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug use, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Eating disorder

gmm1966's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Mental illness, Death, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Alcohol, and Drug abuse

danyels_denouements's review

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

The double twist by Dr. Berry knocks it out of the park AGAIN. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Domestic abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Violence and Gun violence

ids100's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Drug use, Domestic abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Suicide, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Death, and Physical abuse

briash13's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Violence, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Toxic friendship

queerbookworm's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This book was very difficult to get through. Major trigger warning for anyone interested in reading. I included all the triggers I could think of but it's possible I forgot some. But that's the author's goal so I can't really fault her. If you think you're mentally prepared for this, I 100% recommend this book. If you aren't, I would tell you to read something else.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Death, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Violence, Grief, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Homophobia, Drug use, Medical content, Infidelity, and Gaslighting

Minor: Cancer, Racial slurs, and Panic attacks/disorders

amina2002's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.5

I thought the beginning was so intriguing and captivating but after that it felt as if the mystery was not an important portion anymore. It was just revolving around the 3 women’s lives which got very annoying after a while. The mystery was very obvious to me by the middle of the book and there was nothing thrilling. I wish this book revolved more around the lives of the kids than the mothers. But overall I was still enjoying what was being revealed about the boys and what ends up happening to the two boys who didn’t die that night. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Murder, and Suicide

fayelle's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

 certainly had a very hard time putting this book down - it is very compelling and very, "what happened that night???". 

Knocked off a star bc the actual "secret" was not as dramatic as I was expecting. Still very good. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Child death