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Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, Classism
Moderate: Homophobia, Excrement
Graphic: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Death of parent
Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Abortion, Alcohol, Classism
Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Chronic illness, Miscarriage, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use
Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Terminal illness, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol
Minor: Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Toxic friendship
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Trafficking, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol
Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Trafficking, Death of parent
Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Cancer
Fiction / Literary Fiction / Coming Of Age / Audiobook / Appalachia / Dark
⭐⭐⭐⭐ / 5 🎧🎧🎧🎧/5
Using for Prompts
The 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Prompt # 22) Found family trope (It would work for 2, 22, 26, 33, 39, or 41)
Storygraph Road Trip! Read around the USA: Lee County, Virginia
Storygraph Rainbow Reads 2025: Copper
CW: Research what you are about to read, there is some heavy stuff here. Much revolving around the opioid crisis.
Demon Copperhead is a reimagining of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.
I loved this, until the end! It was so close to becoming my first 5 star read of the year. Why? The ending just fed into Redneck stereotypes for NO REASON in such an ick way too.
Anyway...
"People love to believe in danger, as long as it’s you in harm’s way, and them saying bless your heart."
I thought the storytelling was wonderful. This book will be forever in the back of my mind, or one that I will always think of when I am faced with the ugliness of the world around me.
"It hit me pretty hard, how there’s no kind of sad in this world that will stop it turning."
While the story was heartbreaking, and emotional, the author told it in a way that kept me intrigued and invested beyond waiting for the next shoe to drop.
"One look at her and I was gone. This is the truth, it was first sight. I fell down a well into some shiny dream, and if somebody had thrown me a rope, which some few eventually did, you couldn’t have paid me to climb it. Some call that addiction. Some say love. Fine line."
I have never had an addiction myself (other than to nicotine and I quit smoking in 2012) but I've seen what it can do to people I care about greatly. I saw doctors throw pills at the problem instead of ever really looking for a cause. I have a friend who is/was (not my call to make) an addict and it didn't happen on the streets, it happened in doctors' offices. They needed surgery and instead got a script. The thing was once they got them hooked, the problem that caused everything to begin with was still there, but then they were deemed "drug seeking". They got the NEEDED surgery months later, but the new problem created took years to "fix".
I have never annotated a book so much.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, Classism
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship
Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Incest, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Classism
Minor: Homophobia
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Self harm, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Abortion, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, Classism