Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Even If We Break by Marieke Nijkamp

18 reviews

_haven_'s review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

It reads like Scream 4 with a D&D tilt.

Super fun. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Drug abuse, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Car accident, Violence, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, and Murder

savreads28's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Hate crime, Medical content, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Murder, Transphobia, Ableism, Addiction, Chronic illness, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Grief, Bullying, Drug abuse, and Mental illness

flat221b's review

adventurous challenging dark 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? It's complicated

5.0

Marieke does it again! Another page-turner for my collection. I simply could not put it down (except for around the climax - I shouldn’t have been reading at night! 😨) It goes between 5 POVs of a friend group who battles struggles internally, within themselves, and within their group. Has a true DND feel to it that I really appreciated! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Mental illness, Blood, and Drug abuse

bradley's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Child death, Mental illness, Car accident, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Transphobia, and Violence

Moderate: Hate crime, Ableism, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Toxic friendship

mxajlikesbooks's review

adventurous dark mysterious 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

2.5

Plot seemed messy and all over the place, too much going on at once with various character's personal circumstances. Book needed to be longer and go into much more depth about various things to get the feel I think it was going for. Felt like I didn't have time to properly absorb or care about character details. Some of the dialogue and text was too on the nose. I love a good found family, creating your own meaning from life and facing it together sorry, but I didn't need to be beaten over the head with that being one of the main themes. I really wanted to like this book and finished it out of curiosity to see how it ended but I couldn't get into it and just didn't care like it wanted me to.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Car accident, Addiction, Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, and Panic attacks/disorders

parasolcrafter's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

2.75

this book could have been so much better, but it fell miles short </3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death, Ableism, Gore, Grief, Drug use, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Body horror, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Toxic friendship

anniereads221's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic friendship, Blood, Addiction, Drug use, Murder, Car accident, Drug abuse, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

longlost's review

dark mysterious reflective tense slow-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

3.0

wow the villain of this book is a real piece of shit huh

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Classism, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Violence, Ableism, Blood, and Confinement

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Car accident, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

Minor: Transphobia

madarauchiha's review

slow-paced

2.5

This feels like fanfic but not really in a good way. I guess if you like DND then you'd like this book. I don't, so I didn't. Also I'm an adult and I'm not into reading about being a teenager. Been there done that.

The writing was ok. I think it held suspense well enough. It was a very standard 'group goes to isolated location, gets picked off until the ending' story. 

The ending was irritating and felt shallow.

major plot spoiler

livia is the villain because all her friends are doing better than her. ok sure whatever. also she was abused as a child which made her evil.. Um. No.

content warnings
minor ableism, medical content, animal cruelty, animal hunting, 

medium child abuse, car accidents, injuries, ableism, transphobia, hate crime, 

major addiction, drug abuse, death, murder, gore, drug use, panic attacks, 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death, Child death, Murder, Gore, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Child abuse, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Ableism, Transphobia, and Hate crime

Minor: Ableism, Medical content, and Animal cruelty

puttingwingsonwords's review

dark emotional reflective tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Murder, Violence, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Bullying, Ableism, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

Minor: Animal death and Animal cruelty