Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

7 reviews

thatchickengirl23's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, Classism, and Death

Moderate: Alcohol, Cancer, and Terminal illness

Minor: Religious bigotry, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

mme_carton's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Grief, and Religious bigotry

mmehdi_auteur's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Suicide, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Terminal illness, and Police brutality

milesjmoran's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Grief, Sexism, Classism, Death of parent, Child death, and Suicide

Moderate: Xenophobia, Animal cruelty, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Animal death

gracescanlon's review

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Death, Grief, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Suicide, Sexism, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Classism, and Violence

Minor: Alcoholism

webb_beb's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.0

I really was looking for an Austen-esque period piece and so this perfectly scratched that itch for me. I thought it was overall very pleasant and compelling, I really enjoyed the cast of characters and felt that for a book from this time they were fairly multi dimensional. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Alcohol

Use of a slur against Romani people

lara_bk's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Violence, Terminal illness, Suicide, Grief, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Alcohol and Alcoholism

Minor: Injury/Injury detail