Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

One Day by David Nicholls

52 reviews

taulkstoomuch's review against another edition

emotional reflective relaxing sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

As is the nature with long books, there is so much to say about One Day. When you read about a character for so long, you end up having a sort of connection and longing for them. 

I started off not enjoying this book at all, Dexter was such an annoying and unlikable character, which was super odd considering that this is supposedly a romance book. Emma seems to have no personality outside of liking Dexter either (my biggest gripe with this book ugh!). But as the story continued, I started to hope for good things to happen to him, and her, and them. However, I do feel that if their characters were better developed, the book would have been more impactful for me. But goodness me, did the latter half of this book have me shocked. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

Moderate: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

avacole2005's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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

3.75

Written really well but so sad

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death of parent, and Alcohol

cnannery19's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

hstcrow's review against another edition

2.0

Ugh idk. Dex annoyed me so much it was almost unbearable to keep hearing about his pathetic life.
The earlier years were the best part. Em deserved better, which I think everyone (in and out of the book) knows. The very ending was cute. It was just a bit meh tbh and Dex really ruined it for me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

zara89's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Alcohol

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

Minor: Infertility, Infidelity, and Car accident

emilyseebold's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

Moderate: Death, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual content

loulou_22's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Death of parent, and Alcohol

kathshiroma's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug use and Death of parent

Minor: Fatphobia and Infertility

hjb_128's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infertility, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

thesquishyfrog's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring slow-paced

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

3.0

I was going to give this book a 2.5 rating, but (spoiler)

Emma dying caught me so off guard

that I gave it an extra 0.5. 

The first half of this book was like listening to someone tell me the plot of this book. Actually, scratch that. The first half of this book felt like I was watching someone explain the plot to someone else. In other terms, not very good. If I didn’t have a thing against putting books down on purpose, I would have stopped reading. 

Once we stopped playing the fun game of “for how many chapters can Dexter be drunk?”, it got better. Not much, but enough for me to finish it. I don’t know, it just wasn’t that good. Great concept, not great execution. 

Read it if you want, but I wouldn’t recommend it unless you are that bored. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Death

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Vomit