Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Timber by Tate James

13 reviews

booksandcoffeewithlexi's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug abuse and Trafficking

Minor: Toxic relationship, Grief, and Death of parent

bookintrovert's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Chronic illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

Minor: Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Dementia

phoebexcx's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective 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

Oh wow, where to even start. This series, this whole book UNIVERSE, in fact, has been an absolute ride from start to now (because it’s not even finished, I’ve still got the Guild series to go!). Tate James books are absolutely un-put-down-able - I don’t know how she does it! There is never a dull moment, never a place where I feel comfortable pausing to read and although I do my very best to pace myself, it’s HARD! The characters are so compelling, the storylines are completely electric and don’t even get me started on the chemistry and romance!! *SWOON* 

The plot is so well crafted, all these different threads being woven throughout the story that come together so well and all start to make sense the further you get. Everything fits into place with just enough left to drive you further forward into the next series. I’ve enjoyed it so much. I’ve tried to predict it as much as possible, but Tate James seems to be the absolute queen of plot twists and curved balls! Just when you think it can’t get any better, BAM! And those cliff hangers are just something entirely else. I’ve enjoyed every word of these series, with undoubtedly hundreds of highlights and bookmarks in each book to mark my favourite things. Phenomenal. I’d give it 10 stars if I could! And despite being worried it would be similar to the MK series and fall complicit, it is completely different in what I felt was even better. It’s darker, grittier, smoky. The characters are all just so well developed and distinguishable and it’s been great seeing characters from the previous series set in the same world too. I loved the darker aspects, the crushing reality and cruelty in places, and the gritty truths and hardships that just made the characters even more relatable and real. I can’t recommend this series, this universe, or this author enough. Truly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

hellxriver's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual content, Torture, and Violence

alli_the_bookaholic13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death and Suicide

ka_ke's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

5.0

Okay, I lied. Timber is by FAR the darkest in the series. As a social worker with a background of trauma work, Hade’s recovery was sketchy at best, however her revenge was SWEET. The spice is incredible, and reminds me why Tate is one of my auto-reads. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Police brutality, Grief, and Death of parent

laura_rheads_too_much's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

lea_talisa's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

This is the perfect finale. Hades‘s Story hurt my heart and especially the first part of the book is nothing for the light-hearted.

I appreciate Tate giving a content warning in the very beginning. The emotional as well as physical abuse is graphic under the influence of several drugs causing severe hallucinations.

I love that apart from all of the stuff going on with Chase, there still are changes and progress in the relationship of Hades, Lucas, Zed and Cass. They are there for each other with trust, support and love but they also deal with some typical relationship struggles.

„Because a small part of me still thinks you’re going to choose. Eventually, you’ll only keep one of us... and it’ll be Zed. Because it’s always been Zed.“

I love the development in Hades‘s and Seph‘s relationship. They get their deserved Happy End and I couldn’t be more happy about the outcome of everything.

There still are some unanswered questions but looking forward to the next Shadow Grove series I have high hopes to get some answers.

„But that was the thing about appearances, you never really knew what was going on beneath the surface.“

„I had nothing to fear, not here, not with them. I’d never felt safer or more powerful.“

„Sometimes it's okay for the cracks to show. We don't judge you for it; we just want to be there to share the pain. To help put you back together again.“

„My turbulent soul was finally calm. Finally at peace. For the first time in my whole life, I was completely happy.“

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, and Fire/Fire injury

psyched_np's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

thelizzielibrary's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol