Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

3 reviews

sai_like_sigh's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Colonisation, War, and Classism

Moderate: Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Ableism, Panic attacks/disorders, Excrement, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

uranaishi's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Mental illness, Racism, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

elltea11's review

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

There were several places where I felt like the book could and perhaps should have ended. Not as good as Nettle & Bone imo, but still worth a read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Violence, Xenophobia, Excrement, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Mental illness, Self harm, Sexism, Suicide, Vomit, Police brutality, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Classism