Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

385 reviews

nikelback's review

dark emotional reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Murder

elenab's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Drug use, Drug abuse, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Homophobia, Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Suicide attempt

Minor: Death and Toxic friendship

fatfrog's review

Too triggering

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Vomit, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Child abuse, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

fionaparch's review

dark emotional sad tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Drug abuse, and Death of parent

mlovesbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

Isn't everything worthwhile a gamble? Can't good come around sometimes through some strange backdoor?

It grew on me as I listened.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, and Alcohol

Moderate: Violence, Gun violence, and Death of parent

floorse's review

dark mysterious 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

3.5

A solid read, pretty similar in tone and fashion to Tartts other work. I find her characters quite difficult to sympathize with (not least because of the social echelon they tend to occupy, but also because of the strange ignorance of non-upper-class life that seems to pervade all of her works). The latter third of the book dragged on twice as long as I'd have liked. There's also something painfully annoying about a character moralizing for a dozen pages on issues that should be evident to anyone who isn't a oxy-snorting nihilist. Prose was excellent, though, and I really did enjoy it up until about page 600.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child abuse, Alcohol, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Alcoholism

johndenver's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Vomit, Drug abuse, Blood, Murder, Death of parent, Body horror, Death, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Grief, Drug use, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Fire/Fire injury, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Homophobia

khick5599's review

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Child abuse, and Drug abuse

lyndis8377's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Gun violence, Drug use, Death of parent, Addiction, Blood, Drug abuse, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Hate crime, Vomit, Child abuse, and Self harm

maddie_1999's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective 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

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Gore, Abandonment, Addiction, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Vomit, Body horror, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Drug use, and Self harm

Moderate: Homophobia, Islamophobia, Racism, Bullying, Animal cruelty, Antisemitism, Misogyny, Sexism, Xenophobia, Eating disorder, Racial slurs, Stalking, Violence, and Fatphobia