Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

193 reviews

natlonelyghost's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Murder, Slavery, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Alcohol, Blood, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Torture

kyahs's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing 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

5.0

Absolutely loved this book and cannot wait for the next one. Sarah J Maas keeps me up at night again! BUT the blurb would have ruined a lot of it for me if I read blurbs, don't read it!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Violence, Gaslighting, Genocide, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, War, Gore, Addiction, Blood, Death, Animal cruelty, Torture, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Sexual content, Xenophobia, and Slavery

kshertz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.75

Wow that was a journey! I’ve been wanting to read this forever but it’s so many pages! But it’s true that once you get into this world, all you want to do is read and keep going. I definitely got invested. In fact I’m much more invested in the side characters actually. I’ll just keep on reading these books! They’re excellent. I can’t give it 5 stars because there was no sex. What the heck?! I was bummmmmed. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence, War, Cursing, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, Slavery, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Addiction, Drug abuse, Gore, Abandonment, Classism, Death, and Grief

dcnireads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense

• 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

5.0

Another hit by SJM. Starts off a bit slow and has A SHIT TON of info dumping and complicated worldbuilding that will SMACK you in the face, but once the plot kicks off, (and you'll know when it will) It's a rollercoaster. And one I really, really, enjoyed. Once thought I'd never make it past this book, but here I am now, writing this review. It is so worth it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Gore, Alcoholism, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Drug abuse, and Violence

1navn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Drug abuse, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Medical trauma

samiroo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Gore, and Grief

Moderate: Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and War

merwhale2's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

I have not had a book make me cry with anger, sadness, joy, etc. in a long time. This is my favorite series by SJM so far in her writing career. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Violence, Slavery, Vomit, War, Drug abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Torture

ashlynnlee_14's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I read this book for the first time almost exactly two years ago—and then proceeded to forget everything that happened in it. So I did a quick reread so I could continue the series. 

This book fell victim to one of SJM’s favorite way of conveying plot twists: long ass unnecessary monologues. The plot itself was interesting enough to me, with some twists and reveals that weren’t TOO obvious. 

I’m not usually a big fan of urban fantasy (it’s goofy to me when the fae are communicating to each other over text—pls keep them in high fantasy settings) but it was still enjoyable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Drug abuse, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

aharper's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, and Gore

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, and Drug abuse

heyphaora's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Slavery, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Gore

Moderate: War and Panic attacks/disorders