Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

Jeskyně zatracených by Caitlin Starling

33 reviews

ronniethereader's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Vomit, and Death of parent

j_squaredd's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood and Abandonment

bsmucker's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Cursing, Toxic relationship, and Stalking

draconicdetective's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Drug use, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Stalking, Abandonment, and Classism

sarah984's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

A slow but tense book about a woman who gets more than she bargained for signing up for a mysterious underground expedition with a paycheque that was too good to be true. I liked the descriptions of the caving itself and the push and pull between the main characters, the caver and her handler. I do think Em wound up being a bit too soft

(and it's sort of weird imo that she's so young considering she's already sent over 20 expeditions into this cave by the time Gyre tries it) and the Tunneler was scarier before the baffling decision near the end to force a confrontation with it

but overall great book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

sphinxofblackquartz's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Drug use, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Medical content

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Classism

Minor: Suicide and Excrement

Nonconsensual drugging, loss of bodily autonomy. Overdose. Hallucinations, paranoia, surveillance, unreality. Descriptions of bodies in various states of decay. Limb loss.

sargasso_c's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

The writing was very good, but as a whole the book rambled. It would start threads, abandon them for chapters and chapters, and then hurriedly try to tie them up when the main character was nearing the natural end of their journey. Contradictingly, some major plot points were not foreshadowed properly.

Even so - the writing style was quite enjoyable and this isn't at all bad for a debut novel.

The wlw representation was extremely satisfying to read, and I'm delighted that none of the conflicts centered around the queerness of the main characters.

I'm interested in reading more work from this author. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Classism

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Drug use, Mental illness, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gaslighting

beccaand's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Medical content

Minor: Vomit

kscallahan's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Medical content and Murder

Main character is forcibly/non-consentually drugged multiple times and is manipulated and bribed by the woman who she is working for. The woman is her only contact with the outside world for a long time, is very controlling

and has caused others to die for her own gain. The two women enter a romantic relationship at the end of the book

. The main character also stops being able to trust her senses as the book progresses and is unable to determine how much she can trust herself and the woman she works for