Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

A noua casă by Leigh Bardugo

1273 reviews

breezegiveshugs's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use

pinkrosehip's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault

ashback70's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I usually don’t love the “I’m not like other girls” trope, but Alex is the exception. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Gore, Sexual assault, Murder

jesswegmann's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Decent fantasy/mystery novel. Definitely written as a first novel in a series. Lots of action throughout, but the plot line is bleary and confusing. Still not sure if I’ll continue on in the series

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse

littlemissdev's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

sunflowermagpie's review against another edition

3.5

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Way more fucked up than you’d expect 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Injury/Injury detail

peegiereeds's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous mysterious 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Sexual assault, Excrement, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

cordeliant's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Sexism, Vomit

cjfooks's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I really didn’t know how to feel about the start of this book - it wasn’t at all what I was expecting that’s for sure. But by the time I finished it, I enjoyed it enough to want to read the sequel. 
There are definitely a couple of scenes that seem unnecessarily violent (one in particular that feels very unnecessarily sexually violent - and this is coming from someone who loves the horror genre) so 110% check the trigger warnings for this.
In the end, I loved the spooky university, cult, rich prejudice vs low-middle class, Illuminati vibes with a cool main character, a unique concept, and loads of suspense, mystery and world building(?). 
But didn’t love the sexual violence (some of it fair enough for the plot, some of it not), and that I wasn’t mentally prepared for how f*cked up some scenes/concepts are. 
Would I recommend it? For just the right person, yes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Vomit, Murder

maryyyyyy's review against another edition

2.5

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‼️Trigger warnings definitely need to be published at the beginning of this book! If they could dedicate an entire page to information about the type face, they could have dedicated a page to avoid triggering or traumatizing readers.

This book has rape (including rape of an underaged girl), graphic murder scenes, drugs/drug overdose death, and a lot of violence and gore. It constantly reminds the reader of all of the gruesome ways that people can die. Some of it felt like it was just added for the shock factor. Somehow all of the characters just continue along like they don't all need therapy 🙄

Loved the magic and lore behind this story but it was much more graphic and violent than what I generally prefer to read. My bad for not doing my due diligence, but also their bad for not publishing any TWs in the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism