Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

619 reviews

sacculent's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

4.5

This book made me dissociate in a good way. The ending is terribly sad and yet hopeful and positive, and throughout it the whole book made me think differently about the world a little bit. The only thing holding back a 5 star is the writing style in a series of letters, it isnt bad necessarily but sorta made it hard to get in to in the beginning and sometimes i found it challenging for some reason. For now this is my favourite book, because it’s the last one I read. 💕

P.S: this book tackles a whole lot of traumatic events, sexual abuse, drug abuse, and others. Be aware of that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Sexual assault, Rape, and Incest

Minor: Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Racism, and Misogyny

lightthebeam's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

4.25

This book is a classic for a reason. The characters are endearing, I love the overarching premise of an outcast writing letters as the narrative pov. The cast felt complex their problems and dialogue all felt real. I read this in a few hours, it was a wonderful read. I love the way the characters talked to each other. The dialogue was an absolute strong point. I think my only complaints are it just felt like some points had an unnecessary amount of time devoted to them while other side plots didn’t end up being resolved. The ending felt very rushed to me. The epilogue helped a bit but in my mind that’s cheating. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Pregnancy, Rape, Suicide, Abortion, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Homophobia, Sexual content, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Hate crime, and Mental illness

perth_is's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring fast-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: Car accident, Child abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Bullying, Alcohol, Body shaming, Death, Grief, Infidelity, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Addiction, Abortion, Emotional abuse, Violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, and Pregnancy

linnea1801's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Suicide, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Rape, and Suicidal thoughts

charliebriggs96's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Drug use and Mental illness

Minor: Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Abortion

star_long27's review against another edition

emotional sad

3.5

For once the movie was better (painted a better picture) while the book has more details of events

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, and Child abuse

hints of SA, abuse, abortion, homophobia & suicidal thoughts

hansenillustrations's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Alcohol, Bullying, Abortion, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

moranguinhos's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, Bullying, Homophobia, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Self harm, Death, and Suicide

mandycantsleep's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Drug use, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Child abuse, Suicide, Abortion, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, and Homophobia

Minor: Blood, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy

unicorngirl's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted reflective slow-paced

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

2.75

Why is this book so critically acclaimed? It's boring. There was nothing special about Charlie. He was such a flat character. His perspective was childish and seemed like a middle schooler; not a freshman. There was one instance, I don't know what kind of writing device it was, but he said he never learned it until then, and I remember learning it way before him. 
He seems to have the emotional maturity of a pea, he has all kinds of relationships, but it seems like he doesn't know how to handle them. Has no one talked to him about sex-ed or how to interact with humans at all?
As you can tell I didn't enjoy reading this book from Charlie's perspective. Maybe if the author writes a sequel from someone else's perspective, I'll like it better?

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol and Cursing

Minor: Cancer, Sexual content, Death, and Drug use

molesting, guy forcing girl to have sex (rape), talk of pregnancy, fighting, children get hit, cigarette use, slur towards LGBTQ+