Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Darling Girl by Liz Michalski

73 reviews

booksarebae's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Moderate: Mental illness, Medical trauma, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Suicidal thoughts

literaryk's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-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? It's complicated

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Kidnapping, Grief, and Car accident

lexihworth's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Grief, Car accident, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Violence, Medical content, Stalking, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse

skylover's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

1.75

If you know all versions of Peter Pan, then maybe this story will make sense. The first 200 or so pages were intriguing enough with some references to the classic tale, but the last 100 pages or so felt rushed, confusing. Jack seemed like such a annoying son and Holly was not a good main character. The first half was also written so vaguely/mysteriously that after a while the fun of the mystery wore off and it was just confusion and frustration for not being more direct or specific. I didn't understand the references to the classic tale which made the book difficult to follow along and a sexual assault warning at the start of the book would've been appreciated.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Stalking

808jake_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, and Sexual assault

kfrey's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse

Moderate: Rape

laurxduh's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-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? No

3.0

There’s no neverland in this book, just reality with a little pixie dust and a dark shadow

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse and Sexual assault

kaelizaco's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Murder, and Pregnancy

katieimre's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

0.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Rape, and Grief

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

audreyd93's review against another edition

2.75

While I got into the book the second half, I can't give it a higher rating. The buildup was so slow and so drawn out and when it did happen, it was so lackluster. The main conflict we heard about because Holly was not involved. She was drugged (again!). This book is a great example of where the author told us what happened, instead of showing. Holly was told what happened to Peter when Jane went to rescue her son. Holly was told he disappeared. Holly was told about the lost boys. Holly was told about Jack and Ed. But we don't see any of it. All that buildup that was at times boring, lead to nothing. What was the point of her going back to New York? What happened with the scientist that was fired? Why did I get a weird feeling about Barry but nothing happened? What actually happened to Peter and Bell? And Eden for that matter? That was no good explanation for any of it. It was rushed. It took me so long to get into this book and when I finally did, I was let down.

Also, no one needs graphic scenes of Peter Pan raping the main character.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Sexual assault