Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

Fans of the Impossible Life by Kate Scelsa

8 reviews

spossum's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Eating disorder, Hate crime, Homophobia, Self harm, Addiction, Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, Body horror, Bullying, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

freshbatchofbooks's review against another edition

emotional funny sad 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

2.5

I flew through this book, but only because I was trying to beat my library due date. 
I don’t think the epilogue was necessary 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Outing, Toxic friendship, Self harm, Bullying, and Hate crime

Moderate: Addiction, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Blood, Body shaming, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Fatphobia, Medical content, Abandonment, Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Drug use

Minor: Classism, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Adult/minor relationship

insanelyfruity's review

dark emotional funny sad fast-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

3.0

'I was laughing without knowing what was funny. Everything was funny now. Or else everything was horribly sad. I couldn't remember which.'

it seemed like a very lighthearted book at first but as I got more into it I realised how wrong I was. I enjoyed the book but the ending didn't feel satisfying to me and I still have a lot of unanswered questions about the plot. the epilogue only added to the questions. 

"What are we going to do?" I said.
"I guess we're going to sit here and wait for this night to end. Every night has to end eventually."

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Hate crime, Homophobia, Outing, and Violence

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, and Fatphobia

uhh_sydney's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Outing, and Self harm

Moderate: Abandonment, Sexual content, and Addiction

Minor: Cancer, Death of parent, Pedophilia, and Adult/minor relationship

laucavani's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Moderate: Self harm, Mental illness, Drug use, Drug abuse, Bullying, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcoholism and Death of parent

circereads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

This book destroyed me. I still haven't stopped crying.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

typewriterworries's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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

3.5

The book follows three characters: Mina, Jeremy and Sebastian; and there’s a corresponding point of view for each of them. Jeremy is in first person, Sebastian is in second and Mina is in third. While this might be more of hinderance to someone; I loved it. 

Over the course of the book, you watch their friendship grow and see how they all become closer in their respective relationships while navigating their last year of high school. I thought the book started off really strong but didn't finish that way. There’s an infamous scene that seemed so out of place and the ending seemed rushed.

Once I found out that this book was based off the Evelyn Waugh work, Brideshead Revisited, something about it; well, clicked. That said, if you haven’t read the book, watched the mini-series or seen the film, you’ll still be good to go. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Drug abuse, Toxic friendship, and Panic attacks/disorders

jude7's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This book wasn't for me, and really slow paced. I wasn't a fan of having the first person (Jeremy's chapters), second person (Seby's chapters), and third person (Mira's chapters) tenses. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death of parent