Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

The Sinner by Shantel Tessier

53 reviews

colorcrystals's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Murder, Sexual content, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Alcohol

Moderate: Vomit, Suicide, Pregnancy, and Blood

maddy_books's review

3.5

It was good but kind of dragged on. Lots and lots of triggers for this one - especially around sexual assault. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, and Drug abuse

lotta_lip's review

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This book challenged me on so many levels! I had to take multiple breaks reading it. Sin was to much for me! He crossed so many lines (yet he’s still got me to like him). Elli is an incredibly strong yet broken character that I just wanted to hug. I shed a few tears reading this book. Definitely a tense read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Alcohol, Violence, Rape, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, and Drug use

pericurran's review

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

2.0

Omfg this book was so frustrating. Girlie had no self respect at ANY POINT and literally every traumatic situation just ended w basically rapey sex between the MC's. Literally everyone sucked and if I could've I would've dnf'ed at 20% LOL also 0 character development from ANYONE it was literally like reading a Wattpad book from 2014 but w excessive sex scenes that weren't even that great. Anyways kinda sad bc there seemed to be potential for a good book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Addiction, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Emotional abuse

kaadee's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

2.0

Sin is a rapey asshole who makes me angry. He’s a terrible character who deserves n o t h i n g. 

Terrible book but at least Tyson was hot for the 2 seconds he was there.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual content, Drug use, Torture, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Gore, Grief, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Violence

nitarra's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Death, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Kidnapping and Child abuse

peeshy's review

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Rape, Stalking, Addiction, Cursing, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Blood, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical content, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Vomit, Child abuse, Drug use, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, and Murder

mayana27's review

dark emotional sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, and Drug abuse

coffeebooksrain_8's review

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Suicide, Drug abuse, Deadnaming, Murder, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

vikrose's review

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

3.75

I was looking forward to this book and I may have overhyped it for myself. It takes talent to write a book like this and tie up all the loose ends created through the story. However, there simply didn’t need to be THAT MANY twists and turns. Certainly can say this book was unpredictable. The ending made me happy though, so it’s worth it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Physical abuse, Violence, Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Death of parent