Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

50 reviews

star_witch's review against another edition

1.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This book started out ok. Then I reached the end and it was bad. Like really bad. I felt like it came out of nowhere, nothing in the whole book led up to that ending. It was unsatisfying and was only there for shock value. And it didn't even shock me. 
There is only one POC character and even though the racism he experiences is brought up, it isn't actually explore very well. 
Also mental illness was used as a plot device.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Grief, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting

elizabethpowers's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts

jessy_03's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

ngnh_le's review against another edition

1.5

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The first half is good, but then the liars keep acting weird and bam the plot. Over all this book is highly entertaining and does not require much thinking. Since the whole book is about the plot, maybe i won't read it again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Grief, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide

Minor: Animal death

katie2108's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Drug abuse

fugothi's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Addiction, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma

Minor: Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit

newtleg's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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i guessed the end pretty early on. i also find cadence kind of... irritating

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Medical content

jannaploe's review against another edition

1.75

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Racism, Grief, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Alcohol

isabellehoule's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-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

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This book is very good but definitely YA. I am not 100% sure how I feel about the authors writing style, but I loved the story and the way the plot twist was done. I also think this did a good job of bringing to light issues that we don't necessarily think about like racism among liberal white people and addiction. I might not recommend this book to a friend or reread it, but I definitely enjoyed reading the first time around. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Racism, Grief, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

anyajjam's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I didn’t think that the author built the characters enough to be lovable, but they were given lots of background. It was a great read if you need to cry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Drug abuse

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Grief