Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter

8 reviews

twiglt's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, and Suicide

notartgarfunkel's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Murder, Death, Body horror, Rape, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Grief, Gun violence, Sexual content, Stalking, and Drug abuse

tayto23's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Medical content, Death, Blood, Rape, and Violence

Minor: Drug abuse, Alcohol, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Torture, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Stalking, Suicide, Incest, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, and Addiction

mblanke's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Racism, Hate crime, Grief, Death, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Rape, Gore, Kidnapping, Suicide, Physical abuse, Murder, Medical trauma, Infidelity, Confinement, Violence, Sexual violence, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Body horror

emilyyyreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-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

4.75

Karin Slaughter's books are so, so dark and so, so easy to devour. Her stories are complex and layered while also being utterly page-turning. Stay up all night reading, in more ways than one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Stalking, Violence, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Physical abuse, Blood, Death, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Torture

flow's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

1.0

What would've otherwise been a compelling thriller lost me with

Spoiler

police brutality, "we know our victim is a lesbian because her hymen was intact" (not how lesbians or hymens work), the lodge of racist policemen that the police chief seems only vaguely bothered by, and some of the most vile transmisogyny I've ever read. Literally, the state-enforced chemical castration of the sexual predator made his voice high-pitched (to my understanding, not medically possible in someone post-puberty), gave him breasts, and made him cross-dress.

I only finished it so I could in good conscience review it, as I don't review DNFs.

Won't be revisiting this author, and I'm rethinking my intention to try and get into this genre.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Transphobia

Moderate: Drug abuse

memydogandbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I'm new to Karin Slaughter, this is only my second books of theirs I've read and I'm quickly becoming a fan of this author. Slaughter writes a multi-layered, dark, engrossing thriller, but one that is not for the faint hearted, you have to be prepared for disturbing and at times gross depicitions of henious crimes - note however this is done for the benefit of the story NOT as just grotesque for the sake of it. If you like the thriller movie Seven then this is the kind of thriller you will get absolutely emersed in.

I hope to read more Slaughter books this year! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, and Violence

jackbifrost's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Suicide, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Self harm, Racial slurs, Homophobia, Infidelity, and Hate crime

Minor: Alcoholism, Incest, Pedophilia, and Police brutality