Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

City of Gods and Monsters by Kayla Edwards

3 reviews

elntastic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense 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

4.5

I could not put this book down! I loved the world building and the story line. But most of all I loved Darien and his character development. 

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His growing love for Loren is written like a dream. The only things I didn’t like were that the main focus was on the romantic relationship and not as much on the plot. I also found it hard to believe how quickly Loren healed in the end even though she was covered in bruises and scrapes and almost drowned…I also didn’t understand why the Widow said that she would die if she used her power but then ends up being absolutely fine after having used it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Death, Drug use, Animal death, Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Violence, Blood, Cursing, and Gore

Minor: Torture, Addiction, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

crinkledmochi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

While I really enjoyed some of the world building in this book at times it felt like I was reading horrible fanfic on Wattpad. 

It was an entertaining read though! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Drug use, Gore, Kidnapping, Blood, Body horror, Addiction, Alcoholism, Classism, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Xenophobia, and Gaslighting

dkgreads's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? No

4.75

Um, WOW! This was so, SO GOOD!!! I sincerely hope the author continues this series because I am 100% INVESTED. With unique world building and nonstop action, this book was seriously hard to put down! I even cried, TWICE (why you gotta do Singer like that, huh?)! And the final conflict was so TENSE and HEARTBREAKING I could hardly breathe while reading it. The only reasons this isn’t a 5 star book is because Loren did a couple of annoyingly stupid things that got on my nerves and because the epilogue left me with BIG questions. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Violence, Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, and Abandonment