Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

Le Dieu des Bois by Liz Moore

348 reviews

kaybee_ell's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Blood, Alcohol

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Grief

Minor: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence

annie_g_scott's review against another edition

5.0

mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

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Narrator was excellent, elevated the reading experience 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Drug use, Gaslighting

juanat77's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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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The God of the Woods takes places in two timelines and multiple POVs. It’s about a wealthy family, The Van Laars, that own a summer camp in which their daughter Barbara attends and goes missing in 1975. 15 years earlier their son, Bear, went missing on that very same property. As the search goes on for Barbara, secrets from the past begin to unravel. 

Excellent character development. The conclusion and twists are perfectly wrapped up. I loved the ending. 

4.5 stars! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

issymaae's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

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: Child death, Domestic abuse, Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Toxic relationship

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Blood

nata2c_here's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The book is extremely well written. It was compelling to read. For a complicated, character-driven, time jumping, POV jumping book it was surprisingly easy to read. There were definitely parts that were drawn out unnecessarily and perspectives that were needlessly dark. People were missing so often it almost stopped feeling mysterious. Several plot twists were predictable, but it doesn’t mean it wasn’t intriguing or full of depth. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Dementia, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

pferdina's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I don’t particularly enjoy mysteries or police stories and this one was the same. The routine sexism was irritating. So many of the characters were irritating to me. I did not predict the ending though, so there was a surprise for me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Misogyny, Sexism, Classism

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Gaslighting, Alcohol

alxisrae's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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This is gonna be a book that will have me scratching my head for a little bit. I was not expecting that ending. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcohol

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Cursing, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Blood

bina_bee's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark mysterious 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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hooked me right away and never slowed down! 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Alcohol

sarahemily0425's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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A solid mystery with a great setting. Lots of characters to hate and lots of characters to root for.

My takeaway is that men and rich people are the villains and was happy for Barbara’s ending

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Classism

juliecvarner's review against another edition

3.75

dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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The writting was great, very well done! However I felt like it dragged on a bit and it took me much longer to finish than most books. I was also

a bit underwhelmed by the ending but  it was still unexpected and I liked it

. I do wish that instead of providing so many different POVs and timelines, that we could’ve deep dived more into

why Barbara and TJ did what they did and what Barbara’s life was like behind the scenes

. I wanted to feel for the characters more and jumping from so many POV made that difficult. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Alcohol

Minor: Fatphobia, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization