Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

Le Dieu des Bois by Liz Moore

345 reviews

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

angiebradley's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Drug use

catchinthrills's review against another edition

4.0

mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

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: Alcoholism, Child death

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug use

shelbysavagegibson's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Abandonment

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Blood

ignorethemadness's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

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

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Violence, Murder, Alcohol

ka_cam's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Fast, addictive read. Sad and frustrating. Good beach read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, Alcohol, Classism

rosieko12's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Grief

Moderate: Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Classism

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Lesbophobia