Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Later by Stephen King

16 reviews

op3's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing 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

Really like this book, I do plan to reread it, but the end was somewhat of shock I guess? Kinda got let down a little and was faster paced at the end but it’s still a great book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Incest, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Child death

References to organized crime, police corruption, possible rape(?), death is a major thing here, light references to stalking and maybe schizophrenia or psychosis depending on how you view the two. A book that kinda also goes into the flying face of religion with how the afterlife is handed (that isn’t a spoiler, it’s a main reference in the story).

c_brow's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Incest, and Kidnapping

louie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Its so rare to have a malicious character happen to be queer instead of being malicious because they are queer and credit where credit is due Stephen King did this Very Well.

Ive always enjoyed non linear storytelling (I also enjoy when a medium using non linear storytelling shouts out another work using non linear storytelling hellooo saw reference!! made me very happy ty mr king :P) and I enjoyed Jamies narration through his lives most harrowing experiences quite a lot.
He’s an incredibly sympathetic and believable character. Which is another credit to Stephen King considering he hasn’t been a child or teenager in a while and he managed to make me (someone who is almost exactly Jamies age and therefore was a kid in the early 2000s like he was) believe wholeheartedly that this a peers story I’m being told.

All the little (and big) nudges and references, if you can call them that, to It especially were exciting to me personally. Since that particular bit of King legacy introduced me into horror as a genre and i pretty much don’t function normally anymore whenever Maine, Sewers or Clowns or in this case Deadlights are brought up. All in all i had a pretty good time with this and would read more about Jamies run ins with the dead.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Grief and Kidnapping

Minor: Murder and Toxic relationship

solnit_and_sebastian's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

5.0

One of King's mystery novels, Later breathes life into the "child sees dead people" horror trope, adding some creepy twists along the way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Alcoholism, Murder, Vomit, Drug abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug abuse, Self harm, Child death, Sexual content, Dementia, Mental illness, Incest, and Cancer

rainy_window's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Gore, Gun violence, Vomit, Drug use, Drug abuse, Death, and Torture

Minor: Car accident

delinxw's review against another edition

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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Kidnapping, Addiction, Alcohol, Child abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Vomit, Cursing, Drug use, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Violence, Emotional abuse, Rape, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Dementia, Incest, Sexual violence, Blood, and Toxic relationship

lakea's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death of parent, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Gore, Police brutality, Toxic relationship, Death, Grief, Murder, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, and Vomit

Moderate: Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Stalking, Terminal illness, Child death, Trafficking, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Torture, Gun violence, and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Incest

ceedy's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Toxic relationship, Drug use, and Violence

Minor: Incest

spooderman's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Drug use, Stalking, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Gore, Violence, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Chronic illness, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, Cursing, Dementia, Torture, Murder, and Trafficking

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, Cancer, Sexual violence, Outing, and Car accident

Minor: Sexual content, Sexism, Rape, and Pregnancy

slim's review

dark lighthearted medium-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? No

2.5

It was ok. Had it been longer I wouldn't have finished it, I don't think. The premise was interesting - a boy who can talk to ghosts that can't lie - but I didn't feel like the story really did it justice. It was a bit plain; not much happened. It was written in the first-person, similar to a diary, where the narrator (the boy who can speak to ghosts, Jamie) sort of just outlined the times throughout his life he'd talked to ghosts and something mildly interesting occurred. There he would also sort of talk about his mum, his mum's ex-girlfriend, Uncle Harry and some others. 

I think I just finished it because King is a good writer, but overall fairly boring story, in my opinion.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Addiction, Toxic relationship, and Death

Moderate: Blood, Murder, Medical content, and Body horror

Minor: Abortion, Rape, and Incest

health anxiety, hypochondria