Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

138 reviews

amyisonline's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual content, Grief

Minor: Terminal illness, Death of parent

lemonjack's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit

gabbygarcia's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional reflective sad medium-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: Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Grief

Minor: Vomit, Medical content, Abandonment, Alcohol

nora_knight's review against another edition

3.25

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol

Moderate: Medical content, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing, Infidelity

lujisa's review against another edition

4.75

emotional reflective 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: Infidelity, Misogyny, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse

vanessatombolini's review against another edition

4.25

emotional reflective relaxing sad slow-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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Alcohol

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Death of parent

Minor: Misogyny, Pandemic/Epidemic

emrime's review against another edition

3.75

reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I completely loved this book but also disliked it. The pace was slow and some parts dragged on. The writing style was difficult for me to get through, I found myself not reaching for this book often because of that. I thought the way Rooney addressed the grief of losing a parent in your 20s was really beautiful and gut wrenching. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Toxic relationship

_sanikaaa_'s review against another edition

4.5

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use

vonnette's review against another edition

3.75

reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I really appreciated this books great discussion on family and friend dynamics.  Very good show of all the difficulties within families.   Discussions between characters was thoughtful and helped me think through things.   Was a little annoying that it seemed the author had to hit upon every PC topic.  The thing i thought most distracted from the book and a reason I probably won't recommend it is the several XXX scenes.   Very graphic like I was hoping for a soft born book when I grabbed this.   Thought it was totally unneeded and the author was 100% trying to cross a many genres as possible. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse

paula357's review against another edition

4.5

medium-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

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i really grew to love the characters and was so excited how their stories would unfold.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Death of parent