Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson

116 reviews

mzgeee53's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Racism, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, and Gaslighting

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Vomit, and Car accident

abeavs's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

4.5

Much spookier than I expected, Mari was annoying at times but she’s seen some shit so I gave her a pass. Would have been 5 stars with a little more resolve at the end and the weed obsession felt a little forced but again she’s a high schooler so I think it makes sense for her character. Overall this was really good and scary!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Racism

chellyfishing's review

dark 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Racism, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape

torihbu's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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

4.0

this was an action-packed thrill from start to finish. there were multiple plots going on at once (some more developed than others), but between all of it, i never got confused. i thought the gentrification subplot was a bit under-developed—there's only so much you can fit in 350ish words. but the main character's PTS/anxiety subplot and the main "haunting" of the book were extremely well-written, well-paced, and compelling. everything totals up to present the horrors of reality. just when you think you know what's going to happen next, you'll be surprised by this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, and Grief

Minor: Hate crime, Racism, Vomit, Medical content, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

diannasbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense 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

4.75

The narration in this book was amazing!!! The story was amazing! This story had so many layers to it! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

bseigel's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Vomit, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Pedophilia

typedtruths's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

3.5

 ▷ Representation: Black mc with anxiety & entomophobia; Black scs.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Drug use, Police brutality, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Trigger warnings for anxiety and panic attacks, graphic entomophobia (bed bugs), substance addiction discussed, drug use and abuse discussed, overdose recounted, poverty discussed, injury, hospitalisation for anaphylaxis, serious injury of a pet (off-page), parental divorce recounted, ableist/ableist language surrounding mental illness (specifically anxiety), incarceration and false incarceration discussed, police violence/abuse of power/neglect of duties discussed, kidnapping of a child, fire (house fire), riots

maresuju's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Racism, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Confinement, Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

breedeshawn's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Mental illness

emiyawaffles's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.25

This book sort of dragged on and didn’t really feel scary to me, though it was enjoyable. I liked the inner voice of the main character. Though about the ending/reveal..

the whole idea that the people of the town had been set up to destroy it was crazy to me. It would’ve fit in if there were actual ghosts in the house, but instead it was revealed there were real people inside. I think the idea of real people “haunting” the house could’ve been terrifying, but it adds a sense of realism that doesn’t fit in with the whole “evil villains are controlling the town” idea. It had a lot of potential with the twist that the “ghosts” were actual real people, but I feel like it didn’t meet that potential.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Drug abuse