Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Imagine Me by Tahereh Mafi

4 reviews

alimxx's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

3.75

To the world she was a formidable force. To me? She was the world

 

DAMN.

To be honest I thought the first 150 pages were a bit boring and I was so close to just taking about a month to read but I'm glad I didn't. The mid-ending is SO SO worth it. If you're a fan of the Warnette relationship then this WILL be the book for you just after some time. 

There isn't much Juliette in the first 100 pages or so just kinda her dissoassociating which was a bit annoying to me one of the reasons for the knocked down rating

 

I found the Anderson stuff and Juliette finding him handsome really weird but in like a good way? As in it was good to know he was discomforted by something and it really highlighted his delirium and psychosis

Warner is Warner in this as usual and I do love the enornity of his love for Juliette as always

though he's a bit out of it I feel like he could've been worse

All in all, found it to be boring at first but definitely the end pulled it through for me. It's worth it I'd say.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Violence, Blood, Drug abuse, and Mental illness

Minor: Alcohol

abicaro17's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad slow-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

4.25

If you asked me if I liked this book 300 pages in I would have said no. Honestly this book sucked. Boring and gross and depressing. But Mafi manages to once again make a full recovery in the end. I even cried. I hate to say it but the end was so sweet the whole gross Anderson thing seems less offensive.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Abandonment, Drug use, War, Alcohol, Body horror, Chronic illness, Cursing, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Slavery, Death of parent, Gun violence, Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, Torture, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Genocide, Misogyny, Self harm, Death, Drug abuse, and Forced institutionalization

esterslibrary's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Death, Drug abuse, and Eating disorder

antjeliest's review

<Spoiler> I just couldn’t stand Ella/Juliette being drawn to Anderson. That is not right. This whole story line with her being a puppet and Anderson magically coming back to life all the time. So disgusting. It destroyed the whole story for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Death, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Medical content, and Pedophilia