Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews

47 reviews

kimburglar's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction, Racism, Police brutality, Classism, and Deportation

fkshg8465's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-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

4.0

So many things to be sad about. So many things to applaud. So many things to be relieved about. So many things to feel wistful about.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Car accident, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Outing, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Deportation

ryannreidreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful medium-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

I struggled with this book until halfway through. It’s a story of community and identity and is just COMPLICATED. 5 stars because it hit me at just the right time. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Police brutality

jillaay_h's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Toxic friendship, Classism, and Deportation

shaun_dh's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-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

3.0

I all-caps HATED Sneha until about halfway through. I almost DNFed this in multiple occasions. She’s fatphobic, hates enbies (my spouse is nonbinary so this was particularly painful for me to read), has a weird white girl fetish, and wants to degrade, humiliate, and inflict pain upon sexual partners (not a kink that is palatable for me). So go into this book knowing that’s how she starts, but she ends up less of a shithead with age (don’t we all?)

This is the perfect example of why I don’t read books with characters in their 20s—I have zero interest in revisiting that time in my life

This was just fine for me. The cultural nuances are also not relatable to me (Sneha is Indian, I am not) to me so maybe that would have helped my have more empathy for Sneha in the beginning

Tig, Sneha’s bestie, is the best part of this book. I Stan a fellow biracial Black queen. I want a book all about Tig, please and thank you

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Incest, Pedophilia, Racism, Transphobia, Police brutality, Outing, Alcohol, and Deportation

Minor: Ableism, Cancer, Cursing, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Islamophobia, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, and Classism

laurensilva's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Blood, Medical content, Lesbophobia, and Deportation

sammyofthevalley's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.5

This wasn’t my type of book - I don’t usually read sad endings or books which are completely focused on angst. However, I also feel justified in disliking it, as the main character never develops. My FAVORITE part of books is character development, but the only upward motion we see in S is because of a time skip when the development has happened without the reader. I would have liked a lot more payoff for suffering through her situation. But that’s how life is

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Classism, and Deportation

lorenag5's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racism, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, Lesbophobia, Outing, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, Classism, and Deportation

k_a_i's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-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

Beautiful read - life is messy but what is left at the end? Love as a practice - love as a way to move forward. Love as effort. 

The things I have critiques on about this book seem to still serve the vision, narrative & context of this book so very good read overall! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Grief, and Classism

kathleencoughlin's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Outing, and Deportation

Minor: Addiction, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, and Lesbophobia