Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

Black Iris by Elliot Wake

11 reviews

a_pocalypse's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

I need therapy after reading this (just like all the characters in this book)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Drug use, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Infidelity, Gore, Biphobia, Mental illness, Murder, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, Outing, and Toxic relationship

charlotteregan's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

4.0

Just a very insane book with very insane people.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Blood, Addiction, Drug use, Homophobia, and Violence

frogggirl2's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Stereotypical angsty, teenage tropes.  So much homophobia in the near Chicago suburbs in the modern day just doesn't track.  When they mess with Chicago geography its kind of dumb and unnecessary.  The dialog is pretty pat - quoting Emily Dickinson is hardly outré.  I can solve this overwrought, pulpy melodrama in two words: polyamory and therapy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Violence, Outing, Mass/school shootings, Hate crime, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Addiction, Toxic friendship, Misogyny, Biphobia, Suicide attempt, Lesbophobia, Infidelity, Homophobia, Drug use, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Self harm, and Mental illness

amandamarieger's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

To say this was dark is an understatement. I think I’m going to need some time to process. I will say though - it’s more of a thriller than I realized, and I didn’t figure that out until about 30% of the way through… so then I needed to know how it ended even though I wasn’t really enjoying the book. My relatively high rating is mostly for the writing. Wake writes BEAUTIFULLY. I could feel everything. I just didn’t love the plot that was formed with the words, lol. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Biphobia, Violence, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Stalking, Lesbophobia, Bullying, Blood, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Sexual content, Mental illness, Gun violence, Addiction, Outing, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, and Drug use

SO. MANY. CONTENT. WARNINGS.

randirush's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Drug use, Homophobia, Suicide, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Lesbophobia, and Violence

Moderate: Hate crime and Rape

Minor: Murder

giuliaprim's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

kept me glued from the start till the fucking end and the plot twists!
Laney is basically Mia Corvere if she was in a contemporary novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death of parent, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Drug use, Alcohol, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, and Bullying

Minor: Body shaming and Addiction

mllesophie's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This is better to start whithout knowing to much. I knew there was a sapphic romance, but I would not consider this book a romance. I knew it was weird. I pick this up for a beach read and i wasn't the right vibe but I couldn't stop reading it. This is a dark and twisted story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Suicide, Child abuse, Death of parent, and Bullying

Moderate: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Addiction, Homophobia, Stalking, and Toxic friendship

rsk1315's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Self harm

loganskies's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, and Homophobia

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Sexual content, and Violence

emmarood's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

2.5

there’s a lot of time jumping that got confusing 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Death of parent, and Drug use

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