Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

325 reviews

lunep's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Homophobia, Alcohol, Addiction, Mental illness, Cursing, Drug use, Cancer, Outing, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Sexual content, Gaslighting, Grief, Abandonment, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Racism

Minor: Colonisation, Deportation, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Stalking, Sexual assault, Classism, Biphobia, Incest, Genocide, and Slavery

moonbeamdmercutio's review

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

4.75

*holding prince henry* this bad boy can fit so many relatable traits 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing and Homophobia

Moderate: Sexual content and Grief

Minor: Death of parent, Addiction, and Drug abuse

recycled_personalities's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Genuinely such a fun read! I really enjoyed it. If you like fanfiction…this one is for you.

Spoiler

It definitely gets more serious and honestly a little scary near the end bc the mc’s are outed but the book is pretty fast-paced so it moves on quickly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Outing, Addiction, Death of parent, Confinement, and Homophobia

Moderate: Biphobia, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Cursing, and Grief

behindherpages's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Outing, and Sexual content

Minor: Addiction and Panic attacks/disorders

honey_crystals's review against another edition

funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

It's a cute book I guess? There were a few things that made my rating what it is currently:

• Billing something as "enemies to lovers" but a) having them fall in love fairly early in the book and b) they don't really hate each other so much as Alex had some weird pent up gripes about Henry 
• Don't flog me for this, because I'm not saying authors can't, but it felt off seeing a white person write a biracial person and then said biracial person only really brings up his poc side sometimes. Plus the occasional Spanish nicknames somehow felt out of place?? I don't know how to explain it. It's like the slightly off way Monique Grant was written in Evelyn Hugo.
• I believe this is the author's first work. When compared to One Last Stop (and I understand One Last Stop had fewer opportunities for intimate scenes given the occasional subway setting), RWRB had so many more sex scenes? I'm not a prude but there was so much more compared to the next work which was a sapphic relationship.. (I'm also not saying that RWRB had too many like I'm some sort of prude)
• Again, white author writing the poc as one dimensional support characters, even if they were very fun and funny.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Homophobia

ladyames20203's review

emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

I loved this book so much, I wish I’d read it sooner 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing

Moderate: Drug abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Grief, Addiction, Mental illness, and Stalking

emilywoodsmall23's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense 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? It's complicated

4.75

i laughed, i cried, it was so good

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Addiction, Death of parent, and Homophobia

good_names_dont_exist's review

emotional lighthearted 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? It's complicated

3.75

These kids are idiots and I love it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Homophobia, and Outing

Moderate: Addiction and Death of parent

Minor: Racism and Sexual assault

another_dahlia's review

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Biphobia, Death of parent, and Homophobia

Moderate: Addiction and Colonisation

k_berry's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, and Death of parent