Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Gothikana by RuNyx

7 reviews

writingbugsal's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicide, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

ladybug12793's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.25

Not for me.

I like dark romance, especially when you add in a spooky or paranormal flare. This book, however, was pretty boring to me. The plot moved really slow. It feels like this, but could’ve been shorter with what happened. The romance was essentially nonexistent until the very end. It was insta love and then just a bunch of alright smut. The plot twist was also pretty obvious.

No one thought to look into the chick that was closest to the two people (roommate and girlfriend) that jumped off the roof? She would have been the prime suspect.

Again, this book just wasn’t for me, but I know other people really enjoyed it. I personally wouldn’t recommend it to a friend.

2 🌶️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Forced institutionalization

Minor: Incest and Sexual violence

abeyfuss's review against another edition

adventurous 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

5.0

speechless. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Murder

katvou's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Minor: Body horror, Child death, Drug abuse, Gore, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

siad's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, and Blood

Moderate: Drug abuse, Dementia, and Death of parent

teardropsonmypaperback's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Suicide, Dementia, Death of parent, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

whatjasread's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

• professor x student is *not my thing* but vad deverell has me (and corvina) in a chokehold
• gothic elements were so well done, i was very creeped out good job runyx
• such a different vibe from the dark verse series but the writing style is exactly the same, you can tell it's a *runyx* book, yanno?
• some grammatical errors and general confusion in places (riiiiight at the end, they're somehow having sex with his back pressed against her and i truly don't know how that works)
• overall very good, i loved the descriptions and the characters and the plot twist, literally only knocked a star off because i felt icky sometimes with the teacher x student vibe but it's fine i'm fine

TWs: suicide, explicit sexual content (unprotected), schizophrenia, institutionalisation, blood, murder, death, drowning, vomiting, mention of sexual assault, drugging, paranormal scenes, power imbalance, professor x student forbidden relationship.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, and Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Blood, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Vomit, and Dementia