Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Les Oiseaux du temps by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

9 reviews

sarahb919's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious 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? No

5.0

I thought I wouldn’t like this book but I ended up loving it. This is the type of love I yearn for. This is the type of partnership I want. The language in this book is beautiful and organic. Also kind of reminds me of the language used in NBC Hannibal. And the memes! I wasn’t expecting memes! Nobody expects The Memes! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

suhair's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and War

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gun violence, Grief, Stalking, and Alcohol

THE LESBIANS LIVE

spookily's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Torture, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Gun violence, Vomit, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

navayiota's review against another edition

adventurous challenging fast-paced

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

3.25

A pleasant read, although at times it felt like the authors added sci-fi mumbo jumbo to make the characters look more impressive than they were. The poetic writing got a bit tiring after a while but I did enjoy most of it separately. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Genocide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Suicide, Torture, Stalking, and Alcohol

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Grief, Murder, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Self harm, Medical content, Stalking, and Abandonment

Minor: Child death, Sexual content, Torture, Vomit, and Alcohol

Insects, spiders. Illness.

karambit's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Blood, Murder, and War

Minor: Genocide, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Abandonment, and Alcohol

thevampiremars's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

2.5

If you like this book (and I know a lot of people really do), don’t take my disappointment as an indication that you’re wrong to feel the way you do. I’m glad you enjoyed it, but I just didn’t.

Red and Blue make purple, and this prose sure is purple. Every. Single. Sentence. Is trying so hard to be poetic and deep. Metaphors are great and all but this is just too saturated with them to make any real sense. The characters and their relationship didn't feel especially substantive to me. I like the combination of spirituality and science fiction and there’s some neat imagery here and there, but for the most part I found This Is How You Lose the Time War to be a confusing mess and nothing more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Self harm, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Murder, and War

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Stalking, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, and War

Moderate: Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcohol

manarnia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging medium-paced

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

5.0

This book had me SCREAMING (good screams) throughout. It was so good and also unique while full of familiar tropes. It rides the line between metaphor and literal SO WELL. I loved it, okay.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, and War

Moderate: Gore, Torture, and Murder

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol