Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Binding 13 - Alternative Cover by Chloe Walsh

20 reviews

princessrosepr13's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

my favourite series of all time. love them forever. johnnyshannon 💗

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug use

quietmarki's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

2.0

I didn't look up any trigger warning for this book... PLEASE DO ! Felt weird reading about minors having a kind of relationship.... 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Vomit, Addiction, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Homophobia, and Miscarriage

rachelmginger's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Vomit

briochebun's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

3.0

3 out of 5 ☆’s.

“In a way, my childhood was robbed from me because of my ability to play rugby.”

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Goodness gracious that book was incredibly long for a contemporary romance novel (and it seems as though the rest of the series is even longer). 😮‍💨

I experienced a rollercoaster of emotions while reading this story - so I will go ahead and start off with the things that I enjoyed while reading: 

The side characters were interesting! I am curious about Joey + Aoife + Gibsie + Claire + Patrick and hope to learn more about them at some point in the future (when I get around to reading the rest of the series)! :)

I liked that Johnny & Shannon were kind to one another (most of the time at least). I went into this book blind and wasn’t sure what to expect but seeing him protect the “new girl” was refreshing!

I loved the songs that were mentioned throughout the book!

Now — onto the things that I wasn’t the biggest fan of:

Towards the middle point of the book / right up until the field trip chapter it felt as though I was rereading the same chapter over and over again because some things were soo repetitive. This book could’ve been shorter if some unnecessary / repetitive material would’ve been cut.

I also wish that this book had more male “villain” characters. Ronan was present at the beginning of the book, but then seemingly faded off into obscurity & it felt as though 95% of the female characters discussed in this book disliked Shannon because they were “jealous” of her (because she was soo different from all of them & all of their boyfriends wanted her) which…is something that I just wasn’t a fan of?

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I’m curious to see how the series progresses! ♡

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, Medical content, Bullying, Violence, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Child abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Sexism, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Infidelity, and Miscarriage

Minor: Sexual harassment and Blood

emilyreads15's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

4.5⭐️ ~ My brain truly can’t comprehend what I just read. Like omg this story was crazy but I loved it so much. Gibsie is hands down my fav character but everyone is a close second. I was literally at the edge of my seat this entire time which is probably the only way I was able to get through the craziness of this 600 page book.

Let me just say that this is the slowest slowburn of all slowburns to ever exist. It took all my patience and I found myself yelling at the book a lot. Anyways what a cliffhanger. I need book 2 asap.

Giving this a 4.5 just bc it was such a long book for the very little amount of actual relationship time they had. But who cares because I loved it anyways and is a new sports romance fav of mine.

Now I need to decide if I want to but the kindle version of book 2 so I can have it now or get the physical copy that I really want even though it won’t come until Sunday.

If you have a high patience tolerance then read this book asap. Thank you so much to my bestie, Lex for recommending this to me. 

Also please check TW before reading this book 🫶🏻

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Physical abuse, and Medical content

Moderate: Cursing, Blood, Body shaming, and Drug use

Minor: Miscarriage, Rape, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Abandonment, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

joonvrses's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

I hate height differences

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, Drug abuse, Classism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Body shaming, and Cursing

rosereadsalot's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Miscarriage, Abandonment, Addiction, Bullying, Mental illness, Medical content, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Drug use, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Violence, Domestic abuse, Torture, Sexual content, and Vomit

eva27's review

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Addiction, Gore, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, and Violence

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

lucyrudd's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, and Violence

pageafter_paige's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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

5.0

There are no words to describe how much I loved this book. Such a slow burn that depicts high school love so sweetly.
Both characters have strengths and weaknesses that balance each other out and had me rooting for them the whole time. Not only did I love Shannon, like the river, and Johnny, but I enjoyed all the size characters too! Gibsie, Joey, Claire, even Lizzie proved to be lovable. I was initially intimidated by the page count and find size but I found myself able to fly through chunks when I made sure to dedicate time! Overall such a cute high school sports romance I will certainly be continuing!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Alcoholism, Bullying, Classism, Cursing, Physical abuse, Rape, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Addiction, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, and Grief