Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

The Cousins by Karen M. McManus

8 reviews

matonnhermann's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Gaslighting, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Violence, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Grief, Blood, Cursing, and Dementia

Moderate: Death of parent, Gun violence, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Dementia, and Panic attacks/disorders

ashleysager's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Grief, Mental illness, Death, Abandonment, Abortion, and Car accident

Moderate: Classism, Grief, Emotional abuse, and Drug use

bubblepricks's review against another edition

adventurous dark lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

A bit corny but a good, fast read. A tad predictable, but has some pretty satisfying twists as well. 

Anybody names Anders is automatically a bad dude- I don’t make the rules 🤷🏻‍♀️ 
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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Alcohol, Drug use, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Incest

honestlyyours77's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Car accident, Child death, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Body shaming, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Drug use, Miscarriage, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, and Alcoholism

niatella's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

This book did not capture my attention right off the start, so I was already dragging myself to read it, hoping to check this book off my tbr.

Every time the last paragraph of a chapter ends off with a new revelation or a new mystery surfaced, it is followed by a lengthy character-description chapter that causes the thrilling feeling to dissipates. This led me to lose all interest in finding out the mystery of the plot, instead, i was more interested in the romance aspect.

The ending did not help either. It did not feel rushed for me, since the middle of the plot is already so dragged-out that the sense of urgency and enthusiasm in me is long gone.
I do feel that the ending could be better. I don't know, the ending just didn't feel as impactful to me as her other books.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Drug use

evdziech's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia

Moderate: Incest, Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Drug use

cbbyles07's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.25

If you’ve read One of Us Is Lying by her you will like this one.  If you like stories that include family drama and disinherited children this one is for you.  It is not as faced paced as other books I’ve read lately but the ending was still a worthy payoff for sticking with it.  This is YA and could be read by older teens.  They do delve back and forth between the current situation and the past to help the reader piece together what secrets have haunted the family for so long. 

TW: miscarriage, drugs, alcohol abuse, death, and violence (most discriptions are not graphic and yield to expectations of a YA book)

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Content Warnings

Minor: Miscarriage, Death, Violence, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Murder, Grief, Drug use, Death of parent, Dementia, Car accident, Bullying, Alcohol, Addiction, and Abortion

victor_gannon's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

2.5

Not my favourite, there's some implied incest in the beginning with one of the characters describing a character as hot and they don't even stop when they find out they're cousins a page later. (Not a spoiler, this is very early in the book and has no effect on the story)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, and Addiction

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Incest