Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

The Words by A. Jade

32 reviews

bbygirl21's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny tense slow-paced

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

4.0

This is an amazing book. The first 20 chapters were a bit slow for me and took a bit for me to get through them. Probably because I knew something bad was gonna happen to split the characters up. But when that happened and things started picking up I absolutely loved this book. 

I really love characters for the most part as well. Each one has their asshole moments except for maybe the girls. I mean they can get pretty frustrating at times. But they didn't really do anything that's really mean(aside from the bullies like Sabrina and one of the groupies). The guys on the other hand, they're always being rude in some way, but for the most part they all care about the girls to some extent. 

I did almost cry at multiple parts of this book. It was sad reading about Lennon Father. I loved how close Lennon is with her dad. And to see her struggle with his diagnosis throughout this book and watch him slowly deteriorate in front of her was heartbreaking. 

One thing I really loved about this book was that Lennon really made Phoenix work for her forgiveness and that she didn't get back with him easily. This was really slow paced in every way. And while they may have sex together often they don't actually get together until near the end. Phoenix really had to work for Lennon's trust forgiveness and love again. Which was a great thing about this book. While I don't mind an easy forgiveness in a book when it makes the story fast, it's nice to read a book once in a while where the characters make reach other work for it.

It's safe to say I'd absolutely recommend this book. I was very hesitant to read this for to the fact I heard there was a cheating element to this story and I don't really like when the MC's cheat. But I actually really enjoyed this book. It is pretty slow going at first like I said, bit once you get through those first 20 chapters, everything from that point on is pretty go go go and there's hardly any breaks. There's always something happening. But that's another thing I loved about this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Blood, Body shaming, Death of parent, Bullying, Death, Fatphobia, Violence, Dementia, Grief, Sexual content, Alcohol, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Child abuse, Infidelity, and Addiction

Minor: Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Vomit, and Pregnancy

mirandamess139's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

5.0

I absolutely love how the FMC is plus sized and overcame the Intense bullying. Phoenix Walker 😋😋😋

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Bullying, Fatphobia, and Death of parent

tracycook130's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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

3.5

This whole book would have been different if Phoenix just asked Lennon to use her song. This also could have been 200+ pages shorter 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Body shaming, Death of parent, Car accident, Dementia, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Drug use, and Eating disorder

abeards7's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Eating disorder, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Dementia, Physical abuse, Body shaming, Drug use, and Mental illness

alilbitofeveryth1ng's review against another edition

medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Car accident, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Dementia, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, and Child abuse

Minor: Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Police brutality

unicornofthesea's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Dementia, Eating disorder, Grief, Alcohol, Blood, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Bullying, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, and Pregnancy

heyyyyitskatelyn's review against another edition

emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Alcoholism

Moderate: Drug abuse

aalysad's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book was absolutely perfect! The enemies to lovers trope was done so well and the spice 🤌🏻😍 there were so many emotions I experienced with this book. I loved every character so much. Every one of them had so much depth. The book was long, but I didn’t want it to end! The writing was truly beautiful. Also, I listened to the audio along with it and was not disappointed. 😏

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Self harm, Alcohol, Car accident, and Death of parent

jfb0622's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Death of parent, Violence, Sexual content, and Car accident

mjdedevis24's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Grief, Rape, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Dementia, Drug use, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Drug abuse, and Emotional abuse