Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

169 reviews

natroze's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense 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

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Trafficking, Religious bigotry, Violence, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Drug use, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, and Addiction

Minor: Death of parent

emmacartlidge's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Slavery, Trafficking, Violence, Blood, Torture, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Addiction

reinedespres's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Minor: Sexual violence and Child abuse

monbeam's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Gun violence

Moderate: Trafficking

Minor: Violence, Genocide, Vomit, Slavery, Body horror, and Hate crime

oliwia_177's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense 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

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Vomit

szuum's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

2.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Kidnapping, Toxic friendship, Xenophobia, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Gun violence, Trafficking, Animal death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Death, Drug abuse, Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Sexual assault, Slavery, and Misogyny

Minor: Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Torture

ashurah's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, War, Drug abuse, and Drug use

matildai's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

 Imagine an Ocean’s 11, Steampunk team that lived in Holland during the 1890’s Bohemian period.

That is the best visual guide I can give you on the setting of Six of Crows.
~~~
Kaz (the leader of the pack), is given a lucrative but dangerous heist.

If he can pull it off, he will be a very rich man, but he knows that he can not pull it off alone.

Along with Inej, Jesper, Nina, Wylan & Matthias, we are pulled along for a journey of betrayal, truths, lies, deception, and sleight of hand.
~~~
Six of crows was the first book that was ever recommended to me on Booktok.

I started reading it in May 2021 but gave up on it at 60%. I just couldn’t get into it. I just didn’t understand the hype. Why was this book getting 5-star reviews? I just couldn’t see it. Was it me? Maybe I’m simply too old (being in my 40’s) for this young adult novel?

Or maybe it was because it was multiple narrations? Each chapter from a different character, learning about their past and their present? Maybe that was it.

Fast forward to now.

This book was still getting recommended to me on Booktok. So I thought I would give it another go, this time as an audiobook. Maybe having different voices for each of the characters would help (it did).

I got to the end of the book, and I was like: "What? Is that it?:

I knew going into this book that it’s a duology. However, I’m not sure if I want to read the next book. Do I invest my time? Do I want to know how it ends? This I’m unsure of.

I really wanted to love this book. But alas, this one is just okay, hence two stars.

Will my mind change if I watched the Netflix series “Shadow & Bone”, which is based on Six of Crows? Who knows, I’ll add it to my Netflix queue and get back to you. 

---

Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Drug abuse, and Drug use

linus_rieper's review

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad 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

5.0

Epic fantasy heist novel with the most incredible cast of charaters that hold their stance all over the alignment chart. There's fun, there's banter and there is beautiful and dramatic inner monologues and snappy one-liners. You get to dive into most of the characters' inner lives and it's incredible how well they are seperated from each other, and how each character can have a different perception of each of the others in their group. Each dynamic is unique and is reflected in their views of each other.

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Trafficking and Death

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Slavery

chaoticace's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Blood, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Murder, Torture, and Trafficking

Minor: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, and Grief