Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy

34 reviews

rebb003's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Drug use

midnightcxreal's review

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide, Violence, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

tarasoraptor's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

1.5

Tl;dr version: This reads as trauma porn disguised as a mystery. The plot twist was predictable, the concl sion was hurried, poorly structured, and unsatisfying. If I wasn't finishing the book at midnight, in bed next to my partner, I would have thrown it across the room in frustration.

Will come back to review in more detail if I can.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

mlovesbooks's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Homophobia, Rape, Terminal illness, Police brutality, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Outing

Minor: Forced institutionalization

aliciavalenski's review

dark emotional mysterious slow-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? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Rape, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

evadaisy's review

dark medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

So unnecessarily traumatising. Maybe it's a good book if you don't mind that sort of thing, but please take care of yourself and check the content warnings. This book is so much darker than I expected and I wouldn't have read it if I'd known.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Drug use, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Self harm, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Stalking, Outing, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

simkei's review

adventurous emotional funny informative mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Hate crime, Self harm, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

Moderate: Biphobia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Incest, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, and Abandonment

creepycrawlybookworm's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

4.25

This wasn’t your average thriller, it was dark and gritty, but slightly slower paced than many people may prefer, with some dark humour thrown in too.
I appreciated the brutal honesty of the story and the inclusion of plenty of important issues, but can see why this may not suit everyone if they expected something else.
The prose was beautiful, and full of colour and light, with the description of place and character just enough to draw me into the story. There were a few slightly repetitive parts, and loose ends that could have been tied up, but seeing as this is the start of the series, I’m assuming that they will be in the next book. I can’t wait to read it when it comes out!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Police brutality, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Drug abuse, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Pedophilia and Rape

spacestarberry's review

dark mysterious tense 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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, and Rape

rafritz1's review

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Addiction, Incest, Rape, Suicide, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Self harm, Suicide, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

This book made me laugh out loud several times. I really wish I would have known

the fire investigator was high on pain meds through the entire book

because that would have made her dialogue style make a lot more sense. Besides that, I loved this twist on a murder mystery and I will definitely be checking out more Sister Holiday books if the author writes more.