Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu

7 reviews

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Kidnapping, Body horror, and Child abuse

Moderate: Physical abuse, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, Torture, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Medical content, Alcohol, Child death, Cancer, Excrement, Ableism, Pedophilia, Police brutality, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Suicide, Car accident, Vomit, Infidelity, and Alcoholism

Drowning, sex work.

mattyb's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Grief, Trafficking, Confinement, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Excrement, Violence, and Gore

Minor: Drug use, Police brutality, Alcohol, Excrement, and Cursing

oldladysadie's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious 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? No

3.5

I absolutely love Ropa, her Gran and her Zimbabwean magic using the mbira. I wish we got more of that, or at least saw more of the Scottish magic system in use throughout the book.

At times, it felt like this book was trying to be two different stories at once. There was the supernatural mystery with Nicola and the search for Ollie, and there was the titular Library of the Dead (which didn’t factor into the main narrative nearly as much as I expected going in, given it’s the title of the novel).

I still feel like Ropa, Priya and their respective magics are a breath of fresh air, and will most likely read further in the series. I hope future installments spend more time exploring the magic systems that have been set up, though, and that we get more time with the side characters to really get to know them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Body horror

Moderate: Child abuse and Police brutality

Minor: Alcohol and Addiction

nicnevin's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

Good story set in a post-apocalyptic Edinburgh. Plot was pretty good but I would have preferred more worldbuilding stuff because I am unsure where and when the timelines diverged. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Rape, Sexism, Slavery, Stalking, Terminal illness, Torture, Trafficking, and Violence

uranaishi's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Confinement, Slavery, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Grief, Alcohol, Animal death, Death of parent, Child abuse, Death, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Trafficking, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Police brutality, Blood, Car accident, Drug use, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: War, Murder, Animal cruelty, Classism, Rape, Abandonment, and Emotional abuse

ashleycmms's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Animal death, Car accident, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Murder, Torture, Confinement, Cursing, Addiction, Drug use, Animal cruelty, and Violence

thelizzielibrary's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.0

I just didn't like this. I love anything set in my second home of Edinburgh, so I struggled through. But I couldn't connect with the character (14yo) or the plot (too dark for that age) so I was mostly reading for Edinburgh mentions (which get 2 stars just for those). 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Animal death, Body horror, and Death