Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Las Virgenes Suicidas by Jeffrey Eugenides

22 reviews

absolute_gemma's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Suicide

Moderate: Mental illness, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

meghanhelent's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Alcohol, Child death, Addiction, Drug abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Death, and Grief

fancymcgee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.75

you know, i love to emphasize with female characters, but their mother was a villain. the story is told from the perspective of an outsider, but as you read you know something is happening inside those walls that you will never fully grasp. i also don’t love the language the boys use for the girls, but in the end when they realize that they truly didn’t know these girls and romantized people they never truly met, was good. first opening this book, i didn’t know that i would finish it, if i even wanted to. putting it down, i just feel hollow and angry. maybe that was the authors intent, to leave you feeling like even though you were essentially one of the boys looking in on this sad family, you would never understand what happened behind closed doors. can’t say i loved or hated this book. can’t even say i loved those girls, cause did we ever even know them? 
“daughters of the community” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Misogyny, Death, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Medical content, Blood, Suicide attempt, Body horror, Self harm, Stalking, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Mental illness, and Medical trauma

Minor: Racial slurs

kathleenjones's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Death, Grief, Self harm, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Violence, Sexual content, Child death, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, and Blood

Minor: Alcohol, Drug abuse, Racial slurs, and Alcoholism

books4em's review against another edition

This book needs so many trigger warnings it's insane.  I thought I could handle it, but not going to happen at least at this point in my life. The warnings below are only from the first 40 pages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Blood, Child death, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Ableism, and Death

Moderate: Drug abuse and Body shaming

zoe_elizabethxx's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Drug use, Death, Drug abuse, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Blood

priyas's review against another edition

• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Drug use, Stalking, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcohol, Vomit, Sexual content, Mental illness, and Grief

Minor: Ableism, Racial slurs, Racism, Pedophilia, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Misogyny

paolahermosilla's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.75

just the way your heart accelerated in those last two chapters, specially

the Lisbon sisters (except Cecilia and Mary) die and you think they are going to finally scape and then you see Bonnie’s shoes

it was the deep intensity of those scenes that made me enjoy the book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcohol, Drug abuse, and Drug use

cxitlin_baron's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

rachelhynes's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-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

3.0

Not much of a page turner, it was very hard to get in to.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Self harm, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt