Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth

4 reviews

keelin's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Death of parent, Self harm, Homophobia, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Drug abuse and Sexual assault

natthahlyh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death of parent, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Religious bigotry, and Self harm

Minor: Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Sexual assault

jomarie's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Outing, Religious bigotry, Self harm, and Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Biphobia, Blood, Bullying, Cancer, Car accident, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Homophobia, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia

valereads's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Starting on a positive note, I loved the writing style of this book. It really drew you in and had the dreamy feeling being a kid in a hot summer. I hardly wanted to put this book down while I was reading it.

That said I have a couple of issues with it and a couple of things that aren't exactly issues but I;m not sure what else I'd call them.

I think I saw somewhere that this book was originally meant to be twice as long and it felt like it; certain plot points that seemed like they should come back later but were just dropped and forgotten instead.

The book is written in the past tense and gives the impression that Cameron is looking back and describing these events some time after, I wasn't necessarily expecting the events of the book to catch up with this but it definitely didn't go with the abruptness of the ending. Which leads me into the ending itself, I've gone back and forth a lot on my feelings about the ending, whether it was appropriate or too sudden I'm not sure. I feel like it would have been more satisfying if the issues around her parents were a continuous theme rather than something that happened at the start and then were mentioned a couple of times but weren't treated as anything significant again until the end.

I did like the characters, they felt like real people. I've got to say the weakest one was probably Coley which kinda sucks considering her importance to the story. Personally I would have also liked more exploration of Cameron's psychology, especially with the dollhouse though I understand why that wasn't included.

Overall I would certainly recommend this so long as you read the content warnings. I'd especially recommend to fans of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson.

Content Warnings: conversion therapy, homophobia, biphobia, drug use, underage drinking, self-harm, genital mutilation (happens off-screen and not to the MC)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Self harm

Moderate: Confinement, Sexual content, and Transphobia

Minor: Drug abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence