Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson

18 reviews

mitsubachigirl's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Grief, Pregnancy, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Alcohol, Dementia, Sexual assault, Vomit, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Rape, Suicide, and Torture

Minor: Addiction and Cancer

feelinpeachykeen's review

emotional hopeful reflective 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

5.0

This was my friend's favorite book before she passed away, and I think after realizing it I understand why. I think a lot of people need something like this book in their lives, and I'm glad it came to me when it did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, and Suicide

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Sexual assault and Miscarriage

ashleycmms's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Homophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

rachelwierick's review

dark emotional funny reflective sad 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

2.75

Everyone in this book sucks. Audrey is the only character with half a brain. The only reason I stuck with this book was because it had an intriguing premise, but it ended up being really disappointing. I’m glad this was a library book and I didn’t spend any money on it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Bullying, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

nenesuxz's review

emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

1.5

Honestly, I was really looking forward to reading this book, sadly I was really really let down. This book dragged on for too long in the hopes of being inspiring and profound, when really it was a cast of characters failing this kid over and over. I did not find the characters in this book likeable, if anything I was super annoyed by them and their actions  This book put me in a reading slump, the writing wasn’t great and the plot was eh…… I really didn’t like this one, can’t believe I got it as a hardcover….

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Miscarriage, Homophobia, Hate crime, and Emotional abuse

sonjajohnson's review

emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Rape, Suicide, Sexual harassment, and Sexual content

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, and Self harm

mxfahrenheit's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Feels almost identical to At the Edge of the Universe

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Hate crime, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Suicidal thoughts

ha1yan's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

I really didn't enjoy the use of

a rape attempt

as a situation to have the love interest save the MC.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Miscarriage, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Grief, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Violence, Vomit, Addiction, Blood, and Dementia

Minor: Racism and Self harm

Attempted sexual assault