Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

The Penalty Box by Odette Stone

7 reviews

kat7794's review

emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious medium-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: Child death, Death, Pregnancy, Stalking, Alcohol, Cursing, Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Sexual content

apolen's review

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Miscarriage, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Moderate: Pregnancy, Stalking, Violence, and Kidnapping

Minor: Vomit, Murder, Blood, Alcohol, and Animal cruelty

eleek0609's review

emotional relaxing 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Blood, Gun violence, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Sexual content, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy

g_c_geeks's review

dark emotional fast-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

3.75

Was having fun reading a marriage of convenience story about a hockey player but then it turned into a thriller kinda??? Could have done w out that. Halfway through the book spooky shit started happening and it was not what I signed up for lmfao. And then the ending?!?? Straight up a kidnapping and more nefarious shit going on. 
Take all that out and I had a great time reading it lmao. There was no problem with it, it just wasn’t what I expected or wanted out of the book. I could easily pick up on what was happening and got a lil annoyed at the characters for not realising but oh well. 
Mild miscommunication trope but was solved relatively quick before the batshit started hahah. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Child death, Death of parent, and Alcohol

c45p1n's review

emotional funny tense fast-paced

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

4.0

og rating: 3.75
rr rating: 4

tbh there wasn’t much wrong with this book:
- it had great characters<33
- very emotional
- an interesting (albeit predictable) plot line
- humor
- decent writing
- and fun tropes!!! (marriage of convenience / grumpy x sunshine mainly)
- so much randomness ??? it was entertaining but a lil sloppy
- mica !!!! (and his dirty talk >>>)
^ out of all the professionally published books i’ve read, this probably had some better smut, but that’s also not hard to beat bc most prof. published smut sucks

the problems were:
- miscommunication, but that’s a character problem/trope, not a writing problem
- writing was a little repetitive
- again, predictable but still managed to have some originality
- pregnancy trope BUT it’s not what brings them together
^ also had the stalker trope but

- the scene where charlie blows mica while he’s sleeping and then they end up fucking ????? idk charlie doing that while he was not sober and drunk was really uncomfortable 👎👎👎 also vice versa when mica fucked charlie awake but at least they were both sober that time

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Stalking, Cursing, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, Medical content, Alcohol, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Child death

byluneth's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Blood, Murder, Death, and Alcohol

giannareadsromance's review

emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Really cute book, kept me hooked until the last page. Loved the twist at the end! Good spice too. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage

Minor: Animal cruelty and Murder