Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

154 reviews

frantically's review against another edition

It was just so lackluster and I couldn't find it in myself to care about any of the characters, honestly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Death of parent, Drug use, Murder, Death, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Stalking, Classism, Homophobia, and Religious bigotry

goatieboi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

The beginning was slow, but when it picked up it really picked up. Jessica is such a compelling character, I hated her so much but she just grows on you more and more after you see why she is the way she is. 

And that ending??? I was sitting at work, hand over my mouth just shocked. 

I loved learning about the other characters as well! They were all so  horrible in their own unique ways. Some worse then other obviously. Thats what I LOVED about it honestly, that no one was  perfect it just made the characters feel more and more human. 

Over all a fantastic read, if I didn’t make it a book I read at work I would have had it done in one day instead of two. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Murder, Violence, and Drug use

helenlivesslow's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.75

Sometimes there are characters you love to hate, in this book they were all just horrible people, except maybe for Coop. 
Also feel like I was miss sold on this one being dark academia, sure they were at a university but that was merely the setting, not particularly part of the whole vibe. 
Also feel like this one needs *all* the trigger warnings

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Drug use, Suicide, Addiction, and Sexual assault

kirstenpod_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Addiction, Grief, Murder, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Blood, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Bullying, Eating disorder, Classism, Suicide attempt, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Rape, and Gore

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Stalking, and Homophobia

mthornburg13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-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

Like if "If We Were Villians" was about Greek life. Good twists but somewhat predictable after a point.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Infidelity, Death, Grief, Drug use, Drug abuse, Blood, Addiction, Sexual violence, Suicide, Sexual assault, Rape, Murder, and Classism

chuck3791's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Murder, Toxic friendship, and Infidelity

Moderate: Blood, Addiction, Classism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Vomit, Sexism, and Outing

mari_is_here's review against another edition

mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Violence, Toxic relationship, Murder, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Gore

Moderate: Infidelity, Suicide attempt, Panic attacks/disorders, and Drug use

kirstencholewa's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Blood, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Stalking, Death of parent, Homophobia, Body shaming, and Drug use

chloe_green090's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

2.25

These characters are all toxic, to the point where it doesn’t even seem realistic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Murder, Toxic relationship, Suicide, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Drug use, Drug abuse, and Alcoholism

Minor: Eating disorder, Rape, and Injury/Injury detail

saoirses's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Drug use, Addiction, Sexual assault, and Suicide attempt