Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Book of Night by Holly Black

31 reviews

erinmassey23's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Vomit, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Physical abuse, and Abandonment

raedynfae's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction

thepurplepixel's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Gun violence, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Sexual content

multiplyoctopi's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug use, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

bcope84's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

taythegreat's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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

I really enjoyed this book! Holly Black is the best when it comes to morally gray FMC. I loved that our heroine had flaws that but not in the "not like other girls" kind of way, Charlie was a lot of fun and I loved following her even when she made dumb decisions. She stayed on brand for sure. 

This was a very slow book at first, I knew little to nothing about it when I started reading so I wasn't expecting it to be twisty-turny, pleasantly surprised for sure! I had some parts of the ending figured out early on and thought I had it all figured puy. I was pretty smug about it ngl, but the unexpected hit and was so satisfying. 

The one thing I don't love is I went into this book thinking it was a stand alone, probably my fault for not researching it first, so the cliff hanger was a doozy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Incest, and Death of parent

cutie314's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

First two chapters were pretty rough  but once I got through them I got through the entire book in just a couple of hours. If you like the main character (who likes to choose the worst possible solution to every problem), you'll probably like the book. If you don't, then you won't. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Addiction

Also, I can't find a relevant tag, but there are multiple scenes where a character's body is possessed/controlled by another character.

lollyac01's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Death, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Addiction, Vomit, and Gaslighting

marieclimbsc's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

2.0

Very slow start, 100 good pages before it became bland and made little sense. Main character could have been explored so much more. It felt like this book had been written in 2 days and never re-read after. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Vomit, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Death

blamelucy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

• 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

It's honestly fantastic. Just the kind of Holly Black fantastic you hope for when picking up one of her books. World building, intelligent young adult fiction writing genius. No cheap tricks to keep readers hooked. Just very very fantastic writing.

Holly Black continues to be fantastical fiction queen.

<Spoiler> Scary at points but I'm easily scared. Twists in unexpected ways.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Domestic abuse, and Blood