Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Lord of the Butterflies by Andrea Gibson

7 reviews

noura's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

3.0

To annotate a poetry book is like wanting to create pockets of time to come back to every time you feel like existence is a burden you can no longer bear.

Andrea Gibson excels at that. That said this collection was not one that I can see myself coming back to often or even remembering what I read.

Anyway, pick up the audiobook if you get the chance because it being narrated by the author gave it an extra star. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Transphobia

hwerle's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Mass/school shootings, and Suicide attempt

lizseagull's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Drug abuse

rgbees's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Mass/school shootings, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual content, and Police brutality

solliereads's review

dark emotional informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

5.0

Gibson's poetry is beautiful, provocative, and evoking of so many emotions that I didn't even realize that I had, or pay enough attention to. Reading their work felt like having a long, cathartic cry and then picking myself back up again from the ground to face the sun. Andrea writes with brutal honest the horrors of America - they effortlessly portray issues like racism, feminism that fights for equality but not equality for all women, school shootings, grief, and homophobia through a haunting lens that will leave you thinking for a long time. I've written down some of my favourite passages below, but if I included them all, I would be here forever.

 Your life at the prom where you'll run home in a snowstorm, chucking your last pair of heels in a snowbank, realising you are the only boy you ever wanted to tear your dress off for .

 Like we could actually get comfortable being the uneaten animal in the lap of the man making lampshades out of human skin.

I pose you beside our bloodline, our grandfather throwing his liver through the kitchen window, our grandmother on her knees sweeping up the glass. I zoom in to the pieces she didn't find. I find them in the sole of your shoes on your worst day of junior high.

Even life is like funeral practice: half of us already dead to our families before we die.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Mass/school shootings, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Drug abuse, Racism, Grief, and Religious bigotry

maurits's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Drug abuse

hickorynut's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

3.75

Incredibly written and powerful. Lots of TWs but very worth reading for those who can. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gun violence, Antisemitism, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and War

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Racism, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and War