Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes by Elissa R. Sloan

13 reviews

mynameisrebecca's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Suicide, Racial slurs, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Terminal illness, Car accident, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Sexual violence, Homophobia, and Addiction

Minor: Pregnancy and Adult/minor relationship

louiepotterbook's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Car accident, Death, Grief, Misogyny, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Toxic friendship, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Sexism, Racism, Stalking, and Suicidal thoughts

readbycarina's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Pregnancy, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fatphobia, Homophobia, Racism, Cancer, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Addiction, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, and Car accident

icieri's review

dark reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Drug abuse, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Pregnancy, Addiction, Car accident, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

vkitoria's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

i really wanted to love this. it has a lot of things going for it, but the execution fell flat.

first of all, it's very much a taylor jenkins reid copycat. think evelyn hugo + daisy jones, but about a pop group in the early 2000s. TJR herself gave this book a good review but idk... it seems to weird to not even put her in the acknowledgements when this book is clearly heavily inspired by her work. ESPECIALLY evelyn hugo.

besides that, there were a lot of aspects that just didn't work well. the pacing was super weird, and i felt like none of the other girls in the group felt real. i think that the girls' career as gloss should have lasted at least a couple more years, and that would have helped with pacing immensely.

the writing was good, and the issues that the book dealt with felt relevant to the subject matter, but i wouldn't go around recommending this to anyone. i'd just tell them to read TJR instead.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Mental illness, Rape, and Suicide

mariahcervelli's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.25

The plot I read before I actually read the book was gratifying. When I opened the first page I wanted to know how far it was going to get into those topics, there was small tangents and tid bits mostly from cassidy, and there was some depth to it, I just don’t think there was a ton of depth for any of the other gloss girls pov’s in the book. This book is the unraveling of Cassidy holmes so i think it showed it well. But, with the alongside of the other Pov’s I didn’t really like the some of the gloss girls if you think about their actions throughout the book. Rose had some secrets and they were unexpected but her development as a character never really hit, she was still the same until the last few chapters. Back to Cassies death. The real question is how exactly did she die? and another question is Why was the ending that? I honestly didn’t like the ending, the book didn’t tell me how she committed it just gave us hints at her depression which isn’t bad i just thought the entire premise of the book was about that. I felt super bad for Cassie and she made mistakes along the way but she was honestly trying her best. I wish they touched base with Cassie’s sexuality and her relationship she had (no spoilers) rather than it be constant denying. I didn’t care for Merry’s daughter and she honestly was kind of a bad person regardless of the information she was looking for and there was no big discoveries in the entire book. But I actually enjoyed hearing about her in her gloss days and sometimes it was super entertaining! This isn’t a bad review I just had the wrong expectations! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Domestic abuse, and Fatphobia

Minor: Infidelity, Addiction, and Cancer

avabudavari's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Body shaming, Violence, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Physical abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Grief

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Stalking, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Medical content

Minor: Vomit, Pregnancy, Outing, Cancer, Abortion, and Animal death

maggies's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.0

I had high hopes for this book, but I found it fell short of other similar novels about fame and its consequences, like Daisy Jones & The Six or The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo—maybe Taylor Jenkins Reid is just really good at that theme?
There was a lot to recommend it at the start, great writing and an interesting premise, but ultimately it lost its way pretty quickly. Perhaps because there was so much going on that none of it could actually be afforded the proper attention and care? Sure, that can be taken as a reflection of real life, but doesn't make for a particularly enjoyable book, in my opinion. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Mental illness, Grief, Dysphoria, and Death

Moderate: Racism, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Stalking, Sexual assault, Rape, Physical abuse, and Homophobia

Minor: Infidelity, Car accident, Fatphobia, Medical content, and Outing

uwbadgergirl's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Addiction, Body shaming, Cancer, Death, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Suicide

thrillofthepage's review

This book just couldn’t hold my attention. It reads very quickly, but nothing was really happening. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Grief