Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas

65 reviews

wackly93's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Slavery, Violence, Torture, Sexual assault, and Grief

Minor: Drug use and Colonisation

haleyneedsalife's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Cursing, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Blood, Cannibalism, Classism, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Gun violence, and Infertility

anastashamarie's review

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

4.25/5. I feel like everyone is rating this purely on the last pre-epilogue chapter if I'm being honest, but I'm trying to be objective here. I'm gonna keep this short and sweet because I feel like anything more would be spoiler central...

First 1/2 to 2/3 of the book is a 3/5. The pacing was slow. The plot was unnecessarily convoluted, with tons of dead ends that didn't really move the story forward imho. I honestly put the book down multiple times to read other things because it just wasn't keeping my interest that well. But we got lots of Bryce and Hunt and lots of friendship moments (both of which I love) so I'm not too mad at it.

Last 30-40% of the book is solidly 4.5 stars, however. After the first half drug on, the pacing was cranked up to 1000, and I felt like I couldn't put it down in the way I've felt about other SJM books. The last 300 or so pages were very intense, to the point that, as I neared the climax of the story, my husband asked "why I was so jimoy and breathing heavily."

And yes, that ending has me VERY intrigued and VERY excited to see what comes next. But I don't think that it's fair to call this 5 stars just because I like where SJM is taking her storyline.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, War, Confinement, and Grief

Moderate: Blood, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Cursing, and Slavery

Minor: Torture and Drug use

theoceanrose's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Cursing, Blood, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Violence, War, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, and Death

Moderate: Sexual assault

rakizaka's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, and Death

Moderate: Torture, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Slavery

Minor: Drug use

emily_holden's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful fast-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

5.0

Hunt and Bryce are the ultimate power couple and I am obsessed!! They work to build their emotional bond before moving any further, all the while fighting the same fight against their rulers secretly. The entire time I was reading this book, I never felt like I could put it down.
Left on an even bigger cliffhanger at the end of this book, and <A CROSSOVER BETWEEN CRESCENT CITY AND ACOTAR WAS REVEALED!!!!> CANNOT WAIT FOR THE NEXT BOOK!!!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Drug use

prairieraven's review

adventurous slow-paced

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

3.0

It's slow to read for the first 2/3 of the book, it starts twisting and turning after that and the end leaves the reader a bit bewildered and anxious about the next book. Not her best, good. Hoping that the rest of the series improves. Still excessive use of the word F--- which is fine but it's like a word just discovered by a child and is somehow used at least once a page. 

Severe lack of diversity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Police brutality, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, War, Sexual violence, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Incest, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Child abuse, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Torture, Suicide, Pedophilia, Murder, Miscarriage, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Infidelity

tiana_king's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

5.0

HYPERVENTILATING

So this book is slower than the first one so for awhile there I was like solid 4⭐️ But holy sh!t the last 100 pages! I was screaming. I was rioting. I was sobbing. I was speaking in tongues. I was hyperventilating. The ending. Oh my god. I can feel that I’m crash landing into a reading slump as I type this. Will I ever recover?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Gore, Classism, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

Moderate: Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Blood

louisa_pennyfeather2021's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

OH MY GOD I NEED BOOK 3 RIGHT NOW

I seriously can't even form the right words to describe how I'm feeling right now. Especially after the recent information Sarah has released about Book 3. This book is a roller coaster of questioning what is truly good and what is truly bad. It makes the reader wonder just how far someone should go for those they love and/or the greater good. It acknowledges the weaknesses of the characters by exploiting those weakness and being so realistic. Just the idea of what will happen in Book 3 has my mind spinning in a maelstrom of theories. 

I've learned to always look between every word and to think outside the box no matter how outrageous the thought is when it comes to Sarah's writing. Although I did spoil quite a bit of the end for myself, I never would have been able to predict half of the plot twists in this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Slavery, Death, Gore, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Drug use

Minor: Colonisation

hapalyn's review

dark funny mysterious tense slow-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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Vomit, Suicide, Torture, Slavery, Rape, Genocide, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Incest, Fire/Fire injury, War, Sexual assault, and Alcohol