Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Het vlindermeisje by Rene Denfeld

6 reviews

jcoanbrill's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Rape

jtouchard23's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad 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

3.75

“You can be lost even when you’ve been found. You can make the wrong turn in life even if you’re surrounded by people who love you.”

A follow up novel to The Child Finder. I love the characters - Naomi is the child finder and I will always remember her work and her past. The side characters are great and fully developed and this has a lot of suspense/tension although I guessed where it was going early on, I didn’t care. Still enjoyed the story. It’s dark so check trigger warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Kidnapping

seasidefaye13's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, and Kidnapping

namielle's review against another edition

mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Naomi Cottle, an investigator nicknamed The Child Finder, had returned to the Pacific Northwest to try and find her long lost sister. In her search, she meets and befriends Celia, a preteen living on the streets. But there is someone abducting and murdering young women living on the streets, and Celia may be in grave danger. 

This book was written beautifully, even though the things described were depressing and bleak. I’ve find that this and the previous book make you feel like you’ve been transported into a corrupted dream.

There were times that it felt like it was just awful thing after awful thing happening to characters, but to be fair, that sort of thing does happen to people in real life. I was kept guessing, and there is a twist about who is murdering the women that I didn’t see coming. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Rape and Kidnapping

vanessarizzo's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Vomit, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Ableism

beebeereads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

I listened to this book as a follow up to The Child Finder.  I can’t explain why I can tolerate this content. The topic is child abuse and missing children.  But for some reason I fell into The Child Finder last year and raced my way through it.  This year I’ve done the same with The Butterfly Girl.  Although I don’t think its necessary, I believe reading Child Finder first is the best introduction to Naomi Cottle.  The author sets the scenes in both books so vividly that the reader can feel chills as the story gets more ominous. I would not characterize this as a thriller, though some have done so.  It is suspenseful in places, but mostly its a dark story that progresses at a medium pace as the main character searches for her long lost sister.  The characters (except the evil ones) are tender and life affirming.  Thank you to the author for bringing this story to a satisfying conclusion.  

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit