Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

Opium and Absinthe by Lydia Kang

20 reviews

bnielsen214's review

adventurous mysterious tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use

Moderate: Drug abuse and Violence

Minor: Rape

itsheyfay's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Death, Blood, Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Moderate: Abandonment, Classism, Torture, Vomit, Alcohol, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Misogyny, and Pregnancy

Minor: Miscarriage, Xenophobia, and Pandemic/Epidemic

bookingwithjanelle's review

adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

3.25

 I love this style of writing & time period. I really enjoyed the tie-ins with Dracula and the "vampire" murders. While I mostly enjoyed it, I struggled a little bit to maintain a steady reading pace and at some points, I could get distracted fairly easily and wasn't as captured as I usually am during reading a book. There was a lot of drug abuse, so if that is a trigger for you, I would avoid this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Drug use

themelodyofspring's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This was surprisingly good. Kept me at the edge of my seat. I had suspicions about the culprit, and I liked how I was wrong but still close. At least the one person I trusted turned out to be good 😊
Trigger warnings: substance abuse, withdrawal symptoms, domestic abuse.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Pregnancy, Vomit, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body horror, Cannibalism, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Medical content, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

sas_ram's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

Review might follow soon.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Sexism, Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical content, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Misogyny, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Forced institutionalization

mammut's review

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual violence, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Addiction, Classism, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Death, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Vomit, Confinement, Medical content, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

lizziegracereads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Domestic abuse

whitzilla's review

dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Addiction, Death, Drug use, Grief, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Confinement, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Chronic illness

Minor: Miscarriage

gquintana's review against another edition

mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Drug abuse

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Vomit and Violence

outsmartyourshelf's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

In 1899's New York City, eighteen-year-old Tillie Pembroke’s older sister, Lucy, has just been found murdered, her body drained of blood & with two puncture wounds on her neck. Tillie can't help but think this bears a resemblance vampire killings alluded to in Bram Stoker’s new novel, Dracula which has just been published. Her grandmother & mother seem to want to forget it ever happened, & the police have run out of ideas, so taking inspiration from her favourite journalist 'Nellie Bly', Tillie decides to investigate. She soon meets up with a newsie, Tom, (a young man who sells newspapers on street corners) who also has an interest in the case. Trouble rears its head in the form of Tillie's growing addiction to opium, originally prescribed for an injured shoulder, & the fact that Lucy's fiancé, James, now seems to have set his sights on Tillie.

This would have been a 4 star read if it hadn't been for the main character. I found her a bit tiresome to be honest. She is supposed to be eighteen but acts younger, in some ways she is very naïve. I can tell you that if my sister's fiancé tried to pay court to me after she had just been murdered, I would not be flattered in the slightest. The story itself is rather good, with some darker elements, & the hesitant romance between Tom & Tillie is quite sweet. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Sexual content and Miscarriage