Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

The Seep by Chana Porter

11 reviews

aely's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-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

3.25

It was a good book, I’ll give it that. It made me reflect on my own life, which is always a good thing, in my opinion. I just didn’t care all that much about the characters, other than the boy and he didn’t end up playing that much of a role in the story. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes dystopia and living in the present. I didn’t connect much with the characters, but I didn’t dislike any of them either. It was a good book, just not a great one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Drug abuse, Racism, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Sexual content, Drug use, and Grief

Moderate: Murder, Violence, Gun violence, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Body horror, Medical content, Transphobia, War, Death, and Dysphoria

abiofpellinor's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Alcoholism

nick13's review

challenging emotional funny fast-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

4.0

What did I just read? This story had so much going on with a really amazing concept and idea and while I thought the writing to be a little not-so-well paced, i.e. a six year time jump that isn't mentioned until several chapters later, and I found the ending to be a bit lackluster imo, the world in this novel is just astounding. With that in mind, it would be criminal to give this book less than four stars and something I'd recommend to anyone who likes really weird and interesting worlds. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Body horror

Moderate: Grief, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Racism and Murder

nikenacs's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Alcoholism, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Death and Racism

cheye13's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Death, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Gun violence, Gore, Alcoholism, Cultural appropriation, and Drug abuse

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Racism, Medical content, and Body horror

The Seep is spoken of as a drug/narcotic.

mandkips's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Alcoholism, and Death

Moderate: Drug abuse, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Transphobia

talasterism's review against another edition

challenging funny inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

"How have we never met before? they asked again and again, but what they were really saying was, How have I only just begun to love you?"

not much of a review per se, but this book was delightful, delightful. funny and smart and easy and breezy. I really loved Trina but mostly here are my favourite quotes:

it was funny -  "Trina didnt know what kind of revolution she wanted; she had trouble deciding what to eat for breakfast" and beautful - "I'm still married to her memory" "No love to keep her tethered to a form or place" "Deeba was full of life, and Trina was courting death" "The image of light reflected over water. A profound, life-aletering kiss" but also deep - "Eistance is memory"  "and forever was a long time, especially now that death was an opt-in procedure." 
 

"Trina and Deeba enacted the same circular argument until it felt like they were actors in a play going through the same performance night after night, their words hollow, their crying choreographed." THEIR CRYING CHREOGRAPHED IS SO GOOD ACTUALLY.

 

also special egg: inert  - gay - ennie - wordle - love

"They could cycle through together endlessly, learning how to love each other in different permutations of being, in something bigger and grander and stranger than pure romance. Love as a verb, an action, an adventure in knowing. But Trina just couldn’t hack it. She was old-fashioned that way. Simultaneously, this broke both of their hearts."

"She wanted to learn how to speak again, perhaps in another language, in a land far away from the wounds of her past. " "These were the things The Seep gave us, and what it took away. "

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Drug abuse

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Transphobia

afriske's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

lycheejelly's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Transphobia

whatthefridge's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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

4.5

A world set in a supposed Utopia where people are still miserable. This ends up an exploration on it being OK to feel negative emotions and how they are a net-positive aspect of life.

I assumed this would be like an adventure story where the worn-out protag and the green compound-kid end up exploring the system of the Compound. But actually it's more of a literary novel strictly about the protag dealing with loss and grief. The compound-kid is more a plot driver than a person. We never explore a Compound, rather it's entirely the relationship with the Seep aliens that's central to the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Suicidal thoughts