Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

58 reviews

jjjreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Xenophobia, Confinement, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Violence, War, Drug abuse, Abandonment, Bullying, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Colonisation, Lesbophobia, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Death, Domestic abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Pregnancy, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Homophobia, Medical content, and Blood

hwaters95's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Blood, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, War, Child death, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

karcitis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Murder, Toxic relationship, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Confinement, and Death

Moderate: Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Grief, Torture, Blood, Body horror, Emotional abuse, and Misogyny

Minor: Death of parent, Child abuse, Classism, Kidnapping, Vomit, and Alcohol

little_rainbow's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Colonisation, Violence, Child death, Misogyny, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, and Xenophobia

myweirdnormal's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

Absolutely wonderful. I was worried about how there wasn’t a lot of action in the beginning. This book is definitely more character driven and it worked so well. 
I also don’t normally like a lot of pov chapters outside of the main characters. HOWEVER, this book absolutely changed my mind. I felt like the outside povs were necessary for understanding the world and its politics. I loved this. I’m excited to read the next!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, and Drug abuse

vivavia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, War, Blood, Classism, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Violence, Addiction, Bullying, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Vomit, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexism, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Drug use, and Hate crime

Minor: Pregnancy

scrubsandbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.0

I absolutely loved the premise. There were several difficult topics to get through, especially human sacrifice including women and children, but the slow-burn romance and the high stakes political conflict had me absolutely gripped. The prose is gorgeous and lyrical. And multiple sapphic South Asian characters? Sign me up!
It was, however, a slow go for me because there was a lot going on at once. I took down one star because there were a wide amount of characters whose POVs we got to see but I felt not enough time was spent with them. When some characters were killed off, I felt nothing, and I felt like I was unsure if I was supposed to or not. I feel like having less POVs telling the story would have made for a better story but I am absolutely going to be picking up the sequel of this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, War, Body horror, Violence, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Misogyny and Classism

shector1's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective relaxing tense medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Misogyny, Lesbophobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Colonisation, War, Violence, Torture, Religious bigotry, Murder, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, and Blood

Moderate: Gaslighting, Death, Pregnancy, Cursing, Grief, and Drug use

drlove2018's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicide, Lesbophobia, Classism, War, Drug use, Death, Addiction, Confinement, and Grief

Moderate: Body horror

signelinnea's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense 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? No

4.0

It took a little while to get into the actual story so I actually stopped reading it for a little while but once you do things happen all the time. I loved the magic system and I especially liked Bhumika, she is the moment and you need to put respect on her name <3 >:( <3. 

Bhumika is what keeps everything from falling apart and I will cry so much if she dies in the next book, I will seek vengance on Tasha Suri myself if that happens. Ashok can go die in a hole (which he did lol). I hate him so much and could not find it in me to sympathise with his cause, when he was dying  or when he was dead.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Death, and Drug use

Moderate: Pregnancy

you get to know this very early on in the book so I don't classify this as a spoiler, if you think it is Idc. Malini (one of the main characters) is forced to take a drug that has some really awful effects on her mental state and body so beware if you're sensitive to that type of stuff.