Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

My Darling Duke by Stacy Reid

8 reviews

ivegotyourpaperback's review against another edition

3.75

I quite enjoyed this story, mostly due to the hero, Alexander. While he could play the part of the brash and crass Duke, this seemed to mostly be a mask that he put on for society, hiding his sweet and adoring nature beneath. He was an emotionally complex character whose POV I loved being in.

Our heroine, Kitty, seemed to fall a bit flat in comparison. She didn’t feel as fully fleshed out. I would have liked a heroine who would have challenged him a bit more rather than the Little Miss Prim & Proper.

And then came the narrator. Good god, I could barely stand her. I almost DNF’d the audiobook at 4% because of her strange over-pronunciation of words (I wouldn’t be surprised if she was an American putting on a British accent) and the melodramatic performance of the text which constantly brought me out of the story.

But I forced myself to keep going through her weird breathless tone, the sound akin to someone trying, unsuccessfully, to whistle but only able to blow air out of their mouth. The only character whose voice I enjoyed was the minor Russian side character 

Content warnings:

⚠️implication of SA

⚠️physical impairment due to injury

⚠️mention of impotence 

⚠️mention of past drug addiction 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Infertility

Minor: Drug abuse and Sexual assault

kathleenmcg's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

chrisljm's review against another edition

emotional relaxing 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Body shaming, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Colonisation, Ableism, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Alcohol, Infertility, and Medical content

Minor: Grief, Sexual assault, and Pregnancy

ellie_murdock's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility, Medical content, Addiction, Death, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Sexism

alice_gibson's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Medical content

daisycantread24's review

hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, and Drug abuse

kim03's review against another edition

3.5

My thoughts.
Positive:

• Truly adored the writing style.
• The characters. Even side characters were well fleshed out and felt like their own people instead of just a means to an end for the plot and main characters.
• The portrayal of chronic illness. Also the insecurities that come with it.
• The development of the relationship. Well paced, though I wasn't quite d'accord with everything. (Meaning I would've made different choices)

Negative:

• What in the everliving shit was the main man thinking. I do not support a lot of his choices.
  The things he said in anger were inexcusable for me and the fact that the main woman's friends encouraged her to go back to him??? She deserves better (was my opinion after he behaved like the typical proud douchebag). Still happy for their happy end tho.
• His pride (and that is what I identify this as) was my main problem. It stops him from true intimacy, from trusting her and himself, and though I can understand the origin of his insecurities, I still find his reactions... Questionable.
  Case in point: why would anyone insult the woman they love? That made it so hard for me to believe that he actually loved her. This was me during the Fallout scene: 🤨

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual content

Minor: Drug abuse and Sexual assault

dreamfyre's review against another edition

emotional fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Drug abuse