Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

Tower of Dawn, by Sarah J. Maas

9 reviews

chuckielittle's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death of parent, and Injury/injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol, Death, Cursing, Grief, Violence, War, Ableism, and Drug use

Minor: Child death, Infertility, Sexism, Blood, Kidnapping, Suicide, Racism, Sexual content, Slavery, and Vomit

madisonogle3's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Violence, Ableism, Grief, and Drug use

Moderate: Genocide, War, and Torture

Minor: Murder and Suicide

imcourtneymarie's review

dark emotional 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: Pregnancy, Body horror, and Death of parent

Moderate: Stalking, Sexual content, Murder, Ableism, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Vomit and Drug use

kat1105's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Grief, Gore, Injury/injury detail, Infidelity, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, and War

_alyssar_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Death, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Blood, Toxic friendship, and Stalking

Minor: Ableism, Alcohol, Child abuse, Bullying, Medical content, Kidnapping, Vomit, Death of parent, Drug use, Murder, and Sexual content

skylarkindareads's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective 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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Ableism and Injury/injury detail

Minor: Drug use, Vomit, and Cancer

msradiosilence's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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? Yes

1.25

I hate this book with every fiber of my being. Chaol Westfall is an awful character who defers only suffering, and I think poor darling Yrene deserved better. All of the twists? Absolutely saw them coming. The blatant and sickening ableism in this book? Disgusting. The only reason I didn’t DNF was because I would’ve been upset that I let a book beat me, and I’d already spent 8 1/2 hours slogging through it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Drug use, Grief, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Torture, and War

Moderate: Cursing, Gore, and Miscarriage

Minor: Confinement and Gaslighting

axahean's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Genocide, Grief, Gore, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Vomit

mariareviews's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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FINALLY!
After a month of procrastinating this book, I’ve finally finished. To be honest, of 600 and a bit more pages only the last 100 were memorable. I like how Chaol and Nesryn’s stories get developed at the same pace and how neither are diminished to their gender. I also really enjoyed the development of the love interests and how they actually add to the story and aren’t boring side characters whose only function is to kiss our protagonists.
It’s cute, not good not bad.
A simple meh.

I hope it gets better.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Drug use, Grief, Kidnapping, and Violence