Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

24 reviews

erinbahrenfuss's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

The twist was a lot more “in my face” and predictable than I was expecting, but it did not fail to keep me engaged. I was unable to put the book down. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Domestic abuse, Torture, Death, Eating disorder, Infertility, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Infidelity

Moderate: Fatphobia

Minor: Abandonment, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Blood, and Deportation

sehenry20's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Murder

Moderate: Infidelity, Gaslighting, Violence, Sexual content, Confinement, and Child abuse

iisabellathompson's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

There is lots of foreshadowing but then a big plot twist.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use and Murder

Minor: Sexual assault, Rape, and Suicide

mrs_gale's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

It was a good read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, and Confinement

Moderate: Murder, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, and Mental illness

Minor: Alcohol, Death of parent, Infertility, Blood, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Drug use, Sexual content, Cursing, Death, and Drug abuse

abeards7's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

This was highly recommended to me by a friend. It's not my usual genre but I gave it a shot. I'll be honest I found the characters personalities annoying for a long while into the book and at times wanted to just not listen to it anymore. But I figured that was probably on purpose so I better keep going and I'm so glad I did. I was not expecting anything that happened to happen. Mind blown. I am just so impressed by it. I wound up really enjoying it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Blood, Confinement, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, and Torture

ines_santos13's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Murder

livvmarks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body shaming, Alcohol, and Body horror

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Gore, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Classism, Death, Medical content, Violence, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Murder, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Cancer, Death of parent, Infertility, Infidelity, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Confinement, Deportation, Rape, Sexual content, Drug use, Sexual assault, and Torture

zalikawashere's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

It took me about 200 pages to get fully in. I would have given it 5 stars had part one been shorter and part two or three longer 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Misogyny, Infertility, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Toxic relationship, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, and Violence

itslani'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

4.5

i kind of got spoiled on what would happen when i watched a booktuber video and there were no spoilers for me to skip. but was a great book either way. still kept me hooked!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Drug use

mookisbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Torture, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Drug use