Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

From The Ashes by Jesse Thistle

35 reviews

amandasiino's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Death, Alcoholism, Excrement, Drug abuse, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Colonisation

comeundun's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Excrement, Addiction, Colonisation, and Drug abuse

moocasey_'s review against another edition

dark inspiring fast-paced

5.0

I sped through this book. Such an incredibly shocking and touching memoir. 
I love how he never blamed anyone for the mistakes he made throughout his life. He took ownership over all the crap he did, and thanked those that gave him second chances, a couch to crash on, food, booze, and drugs.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Alcoholism, and Addiction

carly_the_librarian's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Rape

ladykatka's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

This book really shines a light on what homeless people and those who suffer from addictions go through in their daily lives. How society seems to regularly fail them. As he writes in the book "society cares more about criminals than the homeless." I only gave this a 4 instead of a 5 because I listened to the audiobook and unusually the author reading their own book is fantastic, but he is really monotone and detached which doesn't deal the emotional punch that book could really deliver.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Drug use

Moderate: Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Medical content

oinkoink's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, Classism, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, and Bullying

brookeasmith17's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

This book is incredibly honest and raw. It deals with difficult topics such as addiction, homelessness, abandonment and abuse, but it is a story about survival, mistakes, wisdom and finding your way home. It’s an extremely moving read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Medical trauma, Violence, and Child abuse

lizlikesfrogs's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Drug abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

pagethreehundred's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Alcoholism

jldobso's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Addiction

Minor: Alcoholism and Alcohol