Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly

79 reviews

chrisb913's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted 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? Yes

5.0

Love Anita Kelly's writing. This continues to provide tremendous lgbtqia+ rep along with providing a sweet heart warming story. As I read this series out of order, it was great finally getting to read about London and Dahlia's budding romance.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual content, and Transphobia

Moderate: Alcohol and Dysphoria

Minor: Blood and Injury/Injury detail

justcallmeemily's review against another edition

funny 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Dysphoria

Minor: Blood, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

corrieroe's review against another edition

emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Homophobia, Sexual content, and Transphobia

Moderate: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Eating disorder and Grief

fleur____'s review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Transphobia, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

roorooreads's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted 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

4.25

This was such a cute romance with a backdrop of a cooking show competition. Our first main character Dahlia just went through a divorce and has quit her job to be on the show. London is nonbinary and is on the show so they can start a nonprofit organization. The two connect pretty much immediately, which was a bit too insta love/lust for me. I loved the sweet moments and cute banter. I also loved how protective they both were of each other. The miscommunication trope reared it's ugly head a bit but overall I loved this story and it's characters! 
Spice:🌶🌶🌶

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia

Moderate: Sexual content and Alcohol

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

Misgendering

crystalisreading's review against another edition

emotional hopeful relaxing

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Transphobia, and Alcohol

Moderate: Dysphoria

Minor: Lesbophobia

josoko's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Deadnaming, Homophobia, Transphobia, and Alcohol

kajoreads's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

4.0

It took me almost half the book to get fully invested in the romance, but I was flying through the pages by the end. 

I picked this up for the enby rep, but ended up liking Dahlia’s storyline more. If you ask me, she was the better written character out of the two. 

That’s not to say I disliked London, I just couldn’t quite grasp what their personality was supposed to be like. Their characterization felt inconsistent to me.

The cooking show setting was super fun & definitely my favourite part of the book. #TeamDahlia

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Biphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, Transphobia, and Grief

Minor: Animal death, Cursing, Blood, Dysphoria, and Classism

zoe_archambault's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-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

4.5

super cheesy romance but that casually featured a non binary person which I somehow did not know going into it??? I was so pleased. the plot was cute and the smut was hot. I ate that shit up

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Transphobia

Moderate: Outing and Alcohol

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

joensign's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Homophobia, and Transphobia

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Alcohol