Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

The Only Survivors by Megan Miranda

34 reviews

emilyjean917201999's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Violence, Medical trauma, and Alcohol

maebemerissa's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

A group of friends - bonded by a car crash they all survives in high school- make a pact to spend one week together every year on the anniversary of said traumatic event. The book has flashback chapters to the car crash they all went through, and it is pretty obvious that all the facts are not adding up. The book had a lot of twist in it, some I did NOT see coming at all!  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Drug abuse and Suicide

kyra_joy's review against another edition

dark tense slow-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? Yes

4.0

I honestly don’t really know how I feel about this book, it felt slow but also wasn’t bad and had moments I enjoyed. In the end it felt flat and was happy to be finished. But at the same time I can’t fully say I didn’t enjoy it. Weird read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse and Suicide

cassielaj's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

I read the whole audiobook in a day. I couldn’t stop. The timeline jumping and the forward-backward storytelling was super effective in pushing things forward, as was the character shifting in the “then” chapters. I thought this was a super original premise, and well crafted for the most part! I definitely caught some twists ahead of time, but usually not too far ahead. There were a few things I wish had been tied up a little more effectively, but overall I liked this one a lot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug abuse, Suicide, and Stalking

hollispaige's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.75

I chose this one from my TBR because there is a character with my name (hollis) and my name is never in/on anything. It didn’t disappoint! I feel like there were some plot holes, but overall nothing that ruined the book for me. What can i say? i’m a sucker for a good mystery that is not a detective novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, and Stalking

lpdx's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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: Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction and Alcohol

hmkuecker's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Stalking, Murder, and Toxic friendship

amberjackonski's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Car accident

Moderate: Drug abuse and Suicide

gellyreads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

I normally LOVE Megan Miranda (adult) books, but this one just fell flat for me. I called pretty much immediately what I assume the big twist was,

that her BF was the one blackmailing and stalking the group, and once they spoke about Claire enough times, the connection wasn't shocking. I found said BF/Russ' death very anticlimactic, I had to re-read it because it seemed so lack-luster.

I also felt like there were far too many characters and the story got cluttered far too quickly. This was interesting and worth checking out, but the weakest (adult) Miranda book I've read. I also wish we spent more time condemning

the teacher/student crush/almost relationship (at least the way they were acting like it was going to play).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Car accident, and Abandonment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Suicide, Violence, Stalking, and Gaslighting

Minor: Addiction

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.5

I was very into this because the story that unfolds and what these kids had to deal with is like Hunger Games-style gnarly.  I also thought the relaying of the events through the POVs of each of the characters was really interesting. I felt a really serious tension when everyone was in the beach house, and I felt like it kind of broke when people started leaving. I also, and maybe I wasn't listening closely enough, had a bit of a hard time keeping all of the characters straight, since there were so many.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Car accident, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Child death, Gun violence, Suicide, Grief, Stalking, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal death, Drug abuse, and Gaslighting