Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

Le Dieu des Bois by Liz Moore

341 reviews

bumblebeefarts's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous hopeful mysterious tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Alcohol

Minor: Drug use

tfortilney's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Alcohol, Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent

mhreads103's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Classism

Moderate: Animal death, Grief

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Dementia

queenrocket's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Alcohol

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Drug use, Murder

_simply_cyndi_'s review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Grief, Alcohol, Classism

applesodaperson's review against another edition

0.75

mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book was such a miss for me! There was practically nothing that I actually liked about it. I guess the premise is mildly interesting, but it was so poorly and boringly implemented that it destroyed any potential I thought it had. I guess I also liked the cover design.

But yeah this book spends entirely too much time building up 2 mysteries and then somehow gives them both the most boring outcomes/solutions possible. Like so much build up for what? It didn’t even feel like a satisfying or even interesting resolution.

I also disliked practically every single character. They were all annoying, boring or both. They also all mainly kept to very basic character archetypes, which came across as boring and lazy. Done well, that can come off as timeless and classic, but not in this case.

I also did not like the cop character, like we just do not need to be glorifying cop characters right now, even if you give them a girl power sub plot. 

I also think the plot bounced around way too much. I do not mind it when books have multiple timelines, because it can add a lot of depth, but in this case it felt messy and confusing. Overall I just think this book was so poorly done on so many levels. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Drug use, Sexual assault

paulabekkerus's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

slickerbeans02's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious slow-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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It was slow first half but it had me intrigued enough to keep going. Really liked the mix of characters however the multiple perspectives with a mixture of time jumps was a bit of a challenge for me to get used too. I did really like all the relationships between the characters and finding out how they all connected. I also feel like the mystery was a marketed a little differently than it should have been, not to say that it wasn’t good it just had me a little confused on where to put my focus. I enjoyed the ending but I’m not sure it was totally worth it in the end. I’m pretty excited to talk about it in my upcoming book club meeting! 

This might also be a hot take but I could totally see this being a pretty good movie with the way to the story was formatted. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief, Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Blood

Minor: Drug use, Dementia

sandysmith's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark mysterious 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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The characters in the book are wonderfully written. Told from multiple points of view and different timelines, initially confusing at first and it took me a while to work out that both the name if the character and the time in the story is given as chapter headers. once I had figured this out, the story was engaging and fast-moving . There were some simply horrid unlikeable characters, but there were enough likeable ones to counter this. My favourite characters were Louise and Judy. The themes of the book are secrets, lies, class, privilege, grief, nature, and power.  There were a few loose ends towards the end of the book that had no bearing on the story (Delphine), but other than that, it's an enjoyable mystery with good suspense, a great plot and very accessible writing style.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

doctadri44's review against another edition

4.5

dark mysterious sad fast-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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse

Minor: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Sexual harassment