Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

644 reviews

americattt's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-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

“Like when Spotify plays a song you haven’t heard since childhood, and it reminds you who you are. Like “oh yeah, I’m a person who knows all the words to Will Smith’s ‘Wild Wild West’”. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Self harm, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Death

Minor: Car accident

myparisbookshelf's review

emotional reflective sad tense medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Alcoholism, and Self harm

Moderate: Sexual harassment

marielaabrown's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-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

3.5

On the one hand I loved this book. The characters seem human and you are rooting for their success and happiness, regardless of if they end up together, from the get-go. It’s interesting, and modern and just great to read.

I have a few qualms with this book however. On a personal level, I think I have to feel that it seems realistic to wholly root for a good romance. Audre is apparently twelve but speaks like a 23 year old millennial, both of them text and flirt the way characters do in the app Episode, and the character development, while satisfying, felt like it needed more groundwork to explain WHY they made the final decisions they did.

Still would recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm

Moderate: Drug abuse

joanasimao's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Drug abuse

Moderate: Car accident and Death

kaileycoronado's review

emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

3.5

Good sex scenes hehe

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Drug abuse, Pedophilia, and Child death

carlyjoann's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Child abuse

toni7tess's review

challenging dark emotional tense fast-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

4.0

Great protagonists, amazing cast of side characters, fun book. The one thing is that the characters are both very traumatized by events they experienced together and in their childhoods and they felt too raw, even at the beginning, to belong together again. It would have worked so much better without a happy ending.  Also, some dialogue really takes you out of the book, especially between the main characters, just feels a bit cliché. Audre is the best character for sure.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Self harm, and Violence

withlivjones's review

emotional reflective sad medium-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

3.75

This was a sweet, well-written read that you can tell was written with a lot of love. There was a good balance of light and shade, with bits of well-done humour and the main characters were so compelling (although a lot of the supporting characters were kind of written off as one-dimensional stereotypes imo). It didn’t completely blow me away the way I was expecting it to, considering the amount of people I’ve heard raving about it, but maybe my expectations were too high. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Child death

Moderate: Grief, Car accident, Racial slurs, Gun violence, and Sexual assault

amimhof's review

emotional medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Alcoholism, and Sexism

tays_books's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Cursing, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Addiction, Self harm, Chronic illness, and Drug use

Moderate: Abandonment, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Child death, and Child abuse

Minor: Grief, Suicide, Gun violence, Vomit, and Sexual assault