Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

The Iron Flower by Laurie Forest

9 reviews

petra333's review

dark sad tense

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, War, and Deportation

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

Minor: Vomit and Alcohol

kwthor's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Trafficking, Grief, and Colonisation

Minor: Rape and Blood

macliffe's review

adventurous dark emotional sad 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? It's complicated

3.75

Loved the way the romance developed in this book compared to the last one. Felt like this book was overall less strong than book 1, but still really enjoyed it. The revelations at the end were so cool!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Pedophilia, Rape, Violence, Vomit, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual content, and Torture

Minor: Grief

crystalsparkles's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Racism, Rape, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Suicide attempt

mooish's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Suicide attempt, and War

braiths_book_thoughts's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense 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

'"Learn all you can, Elloren, about everything you can. You will find that, when you're as powerless as we are, it helps to be clever."'

This book! I could not put it down. I was so enthralled by the story! 

We left book one with a massive power shift in the world and not one for the better.

Oooooooohhh boy, did we see the consequences of that in this book. New mage ruling after mage ruling after mage ruling. Each one is worse than the last and brings more danger to Elloren's friends and family.

My heart was in my throat and I was genuinely worried for these characters. It was so awful watching how the world that was already hating on the characters turn even more dark. Watching the hate crimes to casually and cruelling committed against other races was horrifying, it was painful to watch Elloren forced to see the truth of her race's cruelty. 

My only gripe with this book, was that half way through it, the thought, "in these dark times and band of powerful friends....what is the point of Elloren?"

Elloren, as we know is powerless and she stubbornly stays that way. At no point does she make any effort to better herself in way where she could be useful when the band of misfits are thrown into danger. She laments after every situation how weak and powerless she is, but does nothing to help herself. 

I know it is because her culture has groomed her into being small and powerless, but you think she would at least toy with the idea of learning to protect herself. 

The romance in this book is far more pronounced than in book one. In fact I would say that half the book was Elloren thinking about her love interests. Where it did get annoying, it didn't stop me from wanting to know what happens next.


I am so excited to read book 3.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Sexual assault

mypatronusisajedi's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

minbyrnes's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I had a lot of fun reading/listening to this.

I was wondering if anyone of importance was going to die. I really don’t mind if main or important side characters don’t die in stories like this; I don’t care that it’s not realistic. The deaths were sad but the genocide hit me hard. That part was very difficult to read.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Genocide, and Slavery

rini's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child abuse, Torture, Blood, Alcohol, and War

Minor: Homophobia, Rape, Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Murder