Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang

633 reviews

sofstappen's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

quetzalli101's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I will always think about this book. It was so difficult in the BEST way! I gritted my teeth and beat up my pillow because how emotional it made me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Classism

Minor: Sexual violence, Abortion

kryzysowa_narzeczona's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Abortion

sarapriz's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

sweetteaandfiction's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This trilogy completely destroyed me from start to finish. If my heart wasn’t getting ripped out by the death of a beloved character, I was crying/ screaming/ throwing up over the brutality of the war(s). 

Forever Obsessed.

PROS: 
🔥 The whole ass book 2: Electric Bugaloo 
🗡️ World building 
🔥 Characters
🗡️ Politics 
🔥 Intricate battle plots 
🗡️ Found Family 
🔥 The Gods VS the Divine Architect

CONS: 
🗡️ For me? Still none. The heroes are perfectly morally grey. The villains are also (mostly) the perfect shade of morally grey. It makes it debatable who is the true hero and who is the true villain. 
🔥 For some people? The descriptions of what the invading army did to the people are very graphic and very disturbing. It  never gets easier to digest.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 out of five heroes that might be villains but they think they are heroes but they are villains to somebody

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Sexual assault, Pregnancy

beau_b_reading's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I sadly don't think any book of the series is ever gonna top the first (Poppy War), but I still enjoyed it enough to want to finish the series. I would recommend reading it in big chunks rather than occasionally, because the story doesn't hit as much that way whoops. Thank you Daniel for lending this copy to me :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood

Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Cannibalism, Acephobia/Arophobia

pixilin's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

chitanda's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

catzkey's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Rape, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, War

Moderate: Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Murder

Minor: Addiction, Confinement, Cursing, Racism, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Alcohol

lauralia's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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God this book is grim. I thought, after the first one, that things would look up even a little bit, but nope, so so grim. It’s usually very much not my Thing, but the characters are compelling, and even the truly fucked-up ones (in a sea of morally grey characters, mind!) are in a way that feels so realistic it’s terrifying (I’m looking at you Petra). Rin is extremely frustrating, she keeps making stupid decisions and easily avoidable mistakes, but in a very relatable, once again very realistic way, and that makes me want to know her full story. So on we go, and I hope the end of book three will be even marginally happier 🥲

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Xenophobia, Vomit, Sexual harassment