Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

101 reviews

perfectcupoftea's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Cancer

triple_m's review

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

An emotional story with an unlikely duo that couldn't help but grow on each as the story progressed. Great, complex, and at many points, unlikeable protagonists. 

This definitely needs to be adapted into movie/TV. I could literally picture the action sequences happening as I read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Alcohol

littlelisa006's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

amazing message, great plot.  A fair amount of gore so be careful who you recommend it to

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Minor: Cancer, Car accident, Death of parent, and Alcohol

brookey8888's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

This was a interesting read. I loved the topic and discussions about sexuality, race and racism and homophobia and seeing characters growth. I just didn’t love how this was like an action thriller. Like I didn’t really care about the fathers getting revenge and it was just to action movie for me. The mystery was good, but wasn’t shocking to me. I also didn’t really feel much emotion because I feel like we didn’t get to know the characters. It also took me way too long to remember who was who. This was also really funny at times especially Bobby Lee. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

vrsmith0429's review

adventurous dark inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Deadnaming, Transphobia, and Kidnapping

mchaney's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Racism, Car accident, and Alcohol

kgoody813's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, Kidnapping, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Classism

emilygcotter's review against another edition

I couldn’t keep reading this. I am just not sympathetic to two fathers only caring about their gay sons after they’re dead. I hate this kind of thing, we have enough stories about LGBTQ+ people dying. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Torture, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Alcohol

nimeneth's review

dark fast-paced

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

Warning: do not read this book unless your stomach is iron-clad, or you're okay with skipping big chunks of pages. Seriously, pay attention to the tags.

I wanted to be kind to this book. I wanted to accept that this was going to be a difficult book club read that was gritty and uncomfortable and dark. The blurb was amazing, had a great hook, interesting title, the whole nine yards. Objectively the dialogue was a little flat and the characters felt a little wooden at the beginning, but it would get better, right? I would get through this even if I had to skim or skip scenes, it would be fine, right? Right??? I was optimistic. I was open-minded.

I did not like this book. I did not enjoy this book. The first 100ish pages were fine, mostly. I could accept the racism and homophobia as just part of what it's like in parts of Virginia. The middle is where it started to sour. I especially did not like the last 100 pages of it where it turned into full-on revenge porn. It's graphic, folks. There's no art, just blood. No redemption arc, just death. I think Cosby wanted the final scene to be profound or something, but by that point there's no tying it up into a near little package and calling it hunky-dory.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer and Deadnaming

evawhite's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Transphobia, Kidnapping, and Alcohol