Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

A noua casă by Leigh Bardugo

1270 reviews

janieboucher's review against another edition

3.75

dark mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault

Minor: Excrement

butilikeit's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

warpedfungus's review against another edition

4.0

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Big twist was a little too big for the one chapter it got 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

sydneylmeyer7's review against another edition

4.5

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Vomit

greenan26's review against another edition

2.5

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Excrement, Trafficking, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment

Minor: Racial slurs, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma

wellreadandhalfdead's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious tense 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault

the_unmaker's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark hopeful 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Medical content, Medical trauma

Minor: Racial slurs, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization

clairespiller's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

saltwitch's review against another edition

2.75

mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I sort of appreciated the world-building and the idea of Alex’s character (anti-preppy tough girl whose street smarts/found strength help her along the way), and I was fairly invested in the mystery. But I felt like the characterization was super weak— a lot of different characters acted/made decisions that didn’t feel earned— and the connections between characters weren’t developed at all. We were supposed to be invested in Alex’s friendship with her roommates but never once saw them doing “friend” things/acting like friends.

I didn’t feel/see any evidence why Alex would care about Darlington at all and therefore didn’t understand why she was desperate to get him back.

Lots of telling of backstory, but I felt like I was simply told who these characters were but not made to feel the wholeness of their presence. They never really rose out of the page like I was hoping for. The timeline jumps weren’t a very effective device in this novel and just made the plot harder to follow. The plot twists at the end were super forced. My biggest issue with the book is that I felt the author seemed to be trying to take on violence against women/girls to try to make the novel more important but it didnt actually feel like there was any real justice for the victims in her story, and she created easy villains to dislike/relied on tropes rather than meaningfully interrogating the intersections of gender/class and institutional violence. For example,

Alex embarrassing her roommate’s abuser couldn’t possibly have “fixed” the horrible violence and trauma she experienced but the story kind of acts like Alex meting out justice resolved everything? And everyone at Yale getting the video file as a text and opening it all at the same time … ?

Idk, all of the very graphic SA scenes (

r*pe of a young girl by a ghost??

) at best didn’t feel dealt with in a meaningful way, and at worst read like voyeuristic trauma porn, which was sort of disappointing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault

Moderate: Blood

cannibalisticroses's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship