Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

Children of Paradise by Camilla Grudova

40 reviews

katerina_l's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Miscarriage, Suicide, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Abortion, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

bettylooksatbooks's review

dark funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Excrement, and Vomit

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Abortion, and Alcohol

barbarella85's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Excrement, and Vomit

Moderate: Drug use and Alcohol

bocker_enligt_angelica's review

dark fast-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? Yes

4.0

Ja…. Vad ska man skriva? Det här är inte något för den svagmagade. Gränsen mellan verklighet och vad som är en del av de drogpåverkade karaktärerna är knappt synbar. 
Jag kan känna popcorndoften även då jag lagt boken ifrån mig och scener ur boken får mig att känna mig allmänt olustig. 
Jag är imponerad och jag är glad att jag läst den men jag vill nog inte uppleva den igen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Abortion, and Alcohol

katewhite77's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I Think This Book Is Designed For Cinophiles 

Set in cinema this is also a satire on capitalism, corporatism of cinema and the day to day reality of the 9 to 5 grind.

This book is very grotesque throughout and is full of bodily fluid but I think that's in part due to the film references that were completely lost on me. 

I don't think think this book would be to everyone taste. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Abortion, and Injury/Injury detail

moa's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Dementia, Abortion, and Sexual harassment

literaryscouser's review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

3.5

The books shows how something old and disguising can have charm and bring joy, but a forced change to what is topical which financial interest can be more dangerous and damaging. Using cinemas/film watching to explore some very dark themes and question parts of the human thinking and actions is so interesting and captivating. Didn't put it down and is a very quick, dark read.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Suicide, Abortion, and Alcohol

lianne_rooney's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Blood, Excrement, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Vomit, Abortion, and Injury/Injury detail

catarinamcor's review against another edition

challenging slow-paced

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

0.5

I’ve never given a classification of less than 2 to any book, and never wrote a full review but this book was simply beyond my tolerance for disturbing descriptions. The only reason I did not DNF this book was because I listened to the audiobook on my commute and it was a short one. I found it to be a story based almost exclusively on awful, gratuitously disgusting  descriptions, unlikable characters and pretentious references/comments. The plot was almost nonexistent, but predictable for the biggest events, and I could not find a purpose for reading through it. I do not recommend this read, and especially not at meal times!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Suicide, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual content

bakerk139's review

dark emotional funny mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Suicide, and Vomit