Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

14 reviews

oyuna152's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Bullying, and Emotional abuse

alishbaaa's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨4.5/5
going into this book blindly, i thought that this book would be a cute, light romance. i was soooo wrong. this book was SO addicting like i could NOT put it down. this book taught me a lot…especially to never judge people because u litterally dont know their story. the way that it was written i felt such emotions for each character and became so attached to them. i also felt that this book had a lot of racism in it and i’m not sure if the author did that to show the racism in the past, or because of some other reason..jus confused ab that. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Physical abuse, Racism, Addiction, Sexual harassment, and Panic attacks/disorders

rylin_marie's review against another edition

emotional sad 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? It's complicated

3.5

this was probably one of the most depressing books i’ve read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Drug use, Sexual assault, Violence, Addiction, Blood, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, and Drug abuse

ermt520's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

1.25

The book had potential but I could have done without the bad attempts at discussing race (Eleanor’s POC friends talking in a way that a white author obviously thinks they’d talk, the audiobook authors doing an Asian accent for his mom, the description of his mom as a china doll). The storyline about being in an abusive household was the most compelling and the book would have been better if this Midwestern white woman author didn’t try to explore race relations when she knows nothing and it comes across super cringey and racist. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Bullying, Fatphobia, Racism, and Alcoholism

libriinks's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective sad 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Bullying, Cursing, and Sexual harassment

analea_lucille's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Bullying, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Addiction, and Alcoholism

dianaaguilar's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcoholism, Classism, Addiction, Body shaming, Racism, Fatphobia, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Bullying, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

samuel_walker's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

A good, well written story but the amount of family trauma was too much for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Bullying, Abandonment, Addiction, and Alcohol

lindsay3000's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Domestic abuse, and Fatphobia

duchess16's review against another edition

emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

Spoiler

THE ENDING OMGGGGGG who let the author do this :( come on the book was so incredibly amazing and it wasn't another teen novel that would never actually happen in real life. minus some of the '80s stuff, it could happen today. the ending frustrated me a little because they could've kept their love going, and park tried really hard. you could almost feel his heart breaking with each and every letter with no reply. Its not like the books where one character dies and then no one can do anything about it, eleanor could have tried.... ahh it was still so good!

Spoiler

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Alcohol, Bullying, Sexual content, Abandonment, Addiction, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, and Fatphobia

Minor: Physical abuse