Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Carnage by Shantel Tessier

6 reviews

machteldv's review against another edition

dark

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

xlaurareads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

4.5

this book was literally sooo good! i loved the dynamics between ash and the spade brothers, especially with saint, but i also really loved loved loved haidyn! would've loved to see more of him haha. you could really feel how much saint and ash love each other and while i thought ash to be a little too compliant lots of times in throughout the book, i also think she's a pretty strong and determined fmc. saint kinda felt like a badass with a secret golden retriever heart for ash and whilst i hated his behaviour towards her when he finally found her and took her back to carnage, i think his inner conflict on why he wouldn't let himself feel his love for her and make it visible to her was acted out amazingly! the plot going on towards the end of the book was great and full of unexpected twists and turns which made me gasp and cry out loud and guess everything - i couldn't put the book down, read until 2 am to finish it and went to work having slept for only 4 hours and that was totally worth it! the ending was great too and i was the happiest girly ever when i found out (although i guessed it already, but the author confirmed it) that

my man haidyn did, in fact, not die because of the motherfuckers who attacked him but is still very much alive

! nonetheless, the book was pretty dark, some stuff was really hard to swallow for me and i didn't like the dudes' behaviour towards ash when she came back to carnage...like yeah i get it hard times this that but duh they really could've handled the situation better cause they all knew she loves saint, he loves her and kash & haidyn love her as well sooo. but otherwise i enjoyed reading it quite a lot and had it finished within a day.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

mallorytyler's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

lbilliot13's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Definitely my favorite book of the series. I need more on Haidyn!!😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Rape, and Abortion

chauntel's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Trafficking, and Suicide attempt

whichdirection's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-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

1.0

This book absolutely needed another editing run, there are multiple grammatical errors/errors in sentence structure that just made me do a double take. Additionally there are several spots where the characters say/think something, then repeat themselves a few paragraphs later.

This book is marketed & listed as stand-alone but I would argue you absolutely need to have read Sin & Ty’s books for a good chunk of this one to make sense. Otherwise the immediate introduction of all these characters & the things they know about Luke and Whitney would make No Sense.

There were a lot of plot holes, and inconsistent characterization.

(Saint is meant to be protective & even cuts off a guard’s hand for touching Ash, but does nothing at all to find/punish the man who SA’d her until he shows back up?)

And at the end of the book, nothing had really changed for any of them. No one developed as a person and their situations never changed.
Additionally Ash & Saint’s relationship (like their Romance and their Love) is developed mainly in flashbacks which I found incredibly unfulfilling. They have plenty of sex but he gives her Zero aftercare and they never really talk/bond.

Ash seemed to have a deeper emotional connection with Haidyn in my opinion.

Overall I was just really confused and disappointed for the majority of this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Trafficking and Toxic friendship