Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Alone with You in the Ether by Olivie Blake

80 reviews

jg34's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I liked this! I could see how people wouldn’t like the writing as it’s a bit ~*weird*~ but it was balanced for me, beautiful but meaningful, thoughtful but not too pretentious. It reminded me a bit of This is How You Lose the Time War but this book actually made sense

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Mental illness

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, Sexual content, and Addiction

annamay1021's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Addiction

Moderate: Drug abuse

mashley512's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide attempt and Drug abuse

cobaltmade's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad 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? Yes

4.0

im totally inlove with AldoRegan no one can stop me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Drug use

Moderate: Drug abuse

lucielockettreads's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

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

1.5

I feel bad for rating it so low because it might just be the writing style that doesn’t work for me, but I did not enjoy this book.

There were snippets I read and it did feel deep and philosophical, as though Blake herself was peering into my soul and wrote the words on paper. Then all the other parts, they just… muddled together. I started skipping pages and pages of waffle which of course is charlottes mania. But the message to do with mental health therapy and TAKING MEDICATION I  hated. I study psychology and counselling at university and there is absolutely in my mind a support for therapy, and sometimes medical intervention where therapy is not effective enough, this story says screw therapy and screw my meds! 

I understand that the FMC is bipolar and maybe that’s why she never bought it up but the therapist should of saw them signs earlier. 

Also aldo and his father are a wonderful story and I actually  enjoyed it mostly when they were talking to each other 

Also also, sex doesn’t heal everything!!!!!!

TLDR; not my type of genre, which I learnt through reading this, and the writing style… some good moments but a lot was not, although that does relate to the FMC personality. 

Check trigger warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Infidelity, Murder, Drug abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Addiction

aileron's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Infidelity

Minor: Drug abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, and Suicide attempt

ninahuynh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

5.0

 "A Love Story". Turmoil and recognition. Love and addiction. Lost and denial. Yearning and fear. Regan and Aldo's relationship has more waves than the ocean. While they both understand their own flaws, they're both volatile and have so much inner turmoil that many of us may recognize in ourselves and relate to. While they seem to be opposites, their polarity is what brings them together.

As much as I don't want to like it, their relatability (inner dialogue) is what keeps me chewing through. That acknowledgement! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Misogyny, Sexual content, Drug use, and Mental illness

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

kylielf's review against another edition

challenging emotional fast-paced

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

5.0

This book had me in awe from the very beginning. I could not put it down. The characters were so raw, so honest; they teemed off the page with life. I wanted to hate them for their flaws, but their shortcomings were what made this book akin to reality. I fell in love with this book, and the ending made me sad I couldn't read this again for the first time. Definitely not for everyone, but definitely for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Sexual content

clairew97's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Bullying, Classism, Death, Drug use, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Self harm, and Sexual content

greatestheights's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

2.0

Ooof. Yeah, this was not for me, although I really thought it might be for a hot second! Part of the problem might be that I chose audio, but by the last third of the book, I knew it was also the lack of plot. I agree with another review noting that this was clearly a labor of love for the author, and I appreciate her explicitly stating that pills are not bad in her author's note — because the whole book basically seems to be trying to say the opposite of that. I have complex feelings about meds and treatment, but Regan truly needed them, and the book seems to argue that she was better off without them. Pretty tired of that trope, which feels a bit 2007 for me to be reading in 2023.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Drug abuse, Infidelity, and Addiction