Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

10 reviews

peckreadsbooks's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Homophobia, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Alcohol

jessi_c's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Death by Künstlerroman, no survivors.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Bullying, Child death, Domestic abuse, and Vomit

kain47's review

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

alsoapples's review

dark emotional fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, Colonisation, and War

dozicasey's review

emotional fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Death of parent, and War

okayletsread's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

2.0

I appreciate Ocean's vulnerability, which is clearly given as a gift to his readers, but the style and content of the poetry wasn't my preference. The images often felt disjointed to a point where I had a hard time grasping the substance of each poem. I felt rather distracted by the competing details. I'd still like to try his memoir which I've heard is breathtaking and heartbreaking, but this didn't work for me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Xenophobia, and Death of parent

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gore, Homophobia, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Pedophilia, Forced institutionalization, and Antisemitism

hello_lovely13's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Suicide

laurenkimoto's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

This is the first work of poetry I have read and I don’t know if anything will ever live up to this. Vuong’s works are lyrical and flowing and amazing. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, and Colonisation

ekg's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicidal thoughts