Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

The Cruel Prince, by Holly Black

55 reviews

_dolphin_'s review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death of parent, Alcohol, Murder, and Blood

Moderate: Drug use

becca_w_'s review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Classism, Confinement, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Violence, Injury/injury detail, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Grief, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Medical content, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, and Gore

Moderate: Abandonment, Incest, Child death, and Xenophobia

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, Vomit, and War

acogna's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? Yes

4.25

Gripping, adventurous, and the fae here are unlike anything I've ever seen. Blows anything stereotypically YA fae-fantasy adjacent out of the water.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Bullying

Moderate: Drug use

sempiterne's review

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Injury/injury detail, Murder, Violence, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Blood, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Alcohol and Drug use

schenajja's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Torture, Pregnancy, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence

vendy_kha's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

I've fallen in love... If you've read Cassandra Clare and adored the Seelie & Unseelie court like me, enjoyed the feeling of that place... You have to read The folk of air series! The plot is political but not too blindly (I don't like politics in real life, this equals the levels of Throne of glass but the focus is slightly stronger on the scheming). If you love Aelin, you must like Jude too - she's a total beast and I adore her. The enemies to lovers subplot is wickedly sold on me. This book is YA, the darkness and plot are sooo catchy - highly recommend diving into this world

Spoiler

when she put the dagger to his throat and kissed him I nearly screamed + the poisoning herself, getting rid of Valerian? Madness but also badassery at its finest. I love how she's quick to treason for those she loves and protects!/

Spoiler

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Drug use, Alcoholism, Bullying, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Grief, Slavery, Gore, Blood, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Toxic friendship

yasneaker's review

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Spoiler

there’s a huge plot twist at the end that I was most definitely not expecting. And the back says that readers will be positively entranced but she just killed a guy, three actually so I’m not so sure. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, Death, Blood, Cursing, Drug use, Kidnapping, Bullying, and Death of parent

Minor: Bullying, Blood, Death, Murder, and Cursing

thebookishatelier's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

I'm having a hard time rating this one. While I did enjoy it, it was just solidly good. I've read better books that I gave the same rating to, but I don't fully feel like this goes below 3 stars because that is normally when I DNF a book. 

If you just want a solid, good, YA book with fae then this is perfect. It isn't outstanding, but it was still an enjoyable read. I understand why some people love it but I also understand why some people don't. I enjoyed the story, the plot moved decently fast, and it was entertaining to read. It definitely feels like watching a trashy TV show where you just want to watch terrible people do terrible things.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Blood, Death, Drug use, and Violence

gracecrandall's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

I felt like the little kid in A Princess Bride in some parts ('is this a kissing book?') but the political intrigue...the angst...it's so good!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Violence, Trafficking, Murder, Bullying, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Torture, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Domestic abuse, Incest, Drug use, Self harm, and Physical abuse

Minor: Pregnancy

snapdrag_n's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

Minor: Drug use