Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny

4 reviews

simply_fran's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, and Gaslighting

cake_cats_books's review against another edition

challenging 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Racism, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and War

kimveach's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

4.25

Another outstanding Inspector Armand Gamache book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Outing, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and War

laurenleigh's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective 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

5.0

I think this has been one of my favorites from the Inspector Gamache series! As always, Penny uses the murder mystery container to explore the human condition in such a gentle, eye-opening manner. The topic of this book was about power and those who abuse it. The group dynamics of students and how they can be molded by teachers (for good or bad) was thought provoking. The ending felt quite surprising to me. Though you should know I’m normally pretty bad at guessing the murderer! But I often don’t even stop to try; I like to just follow the story as an observer, rather than play detective myself. Definitely want to give a gun violence warning on this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual content, Blood, and Murder