Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Pucking Around by Emily Rath

18 reviews

acasiamae's review against another edition

funny informative lighthearted 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

3.75

This was the sluttiest thing I’ve ever read. Woah. I picked it up as a joke and got sucked in. I did not at all expect to read a 105 chapter book in a week or less. This is not for the faint of heart and I had no clue what I was in for. There are many kinks that I didn’t know about or arn't interested in but it held my attention. The writing is honestly meh, it was cringy and sappy and kind of stupid but I can’t say I didn’t kind of love it in the end. The characters are well rounded and their own individual people which is appreciated. And while our main character annoyed me a few times I warmed to her too. What a wild ride. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Drug abuse, Outing, Alcoholism, Blood, Death of parent, Addiction, and Cancer

kenomilligan's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.25

I would say this book is like 80% sex and 20% hockey. Some chapters its just sex after sex after sex, and as someone who loves a bit of smut, it was a little too much at times. It felt like they had sex sometimes just to have sex and it didn't really add much to the plot.

Poor Caleb, man. He kept getting the short end of the stick. 

Rachel cries too easily. The zodiac stuff was annoying.

I think Jake was left out of some sex scenes for no reason...like Mars and Caleb definitely got more action than him—but Jake arguably had more of a connection to Rachel.

Anyway, it was a fun and cute read. The first 20 or so chapters made me want to pull my hair out with how emotional Rachel was...and how she kept calling Caleb "daddy"...and the stuttering. But it got better.

Caleb is revealed to be queer at the beginning of the book, but it doesn't come into play until around 50% of the way in. Definitely thought the author made him gay just to have a gay character and be "inclusive", but I'm glad it actually went somewhere and was useful to the plot.

VERY sex positive.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug abuse, and Sexual content

immovabletype's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted fast-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Sexism, Cursing, Medical content, and Sexual content

Moderate: Abandonment, Ableism, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, and Violence

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Alcohol, Outing, Vomit, and Pregnancy

There's a lot of behavior from various players toward the FMC in the capacity of her job that is meant to be cute but would absolutely be sexual harassment irl.

scubadivinggirl's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Addiction, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug abuse, and Alcoholism

kb33's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Sexism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Medical content

Minor: Blood, Drug abuse, Addiction, Homophobia, Infidelity, and Outing

futureofmydays's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Eating disorder, Death, Violence, Gaslighting, Alcoholism, Cancer, Death of parent, and Alcohol

abbys_reads's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent, Homophobia, Misogyny, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexism, Abandonment, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Drug abuse, Addiction, and Injury/Injury detail

planreadrepeat's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.0

The steam was good. But 645 pages! I feel this would have been better as a duet or maybe just slim it down. I liked the guys. I felt they all had their own personality. Rachel was just sort of there for a lot of it. She was their glue maybe but just seemed pretty boring for a hot shot doctor with a famous dad. The hockey parts were actually pretty good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Biphobia and Homophobia

Minor: Drug abuse

ashwood_15's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Drug abuse and Alcoholism

ladynavalon's review against another edition

funny slow-paced

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

1.0

Let's be honest. This book is for what it is, period. To read it with your favorite toy at hand and not give the plot too much thought. Porn with (bad) plot, that's all. Don't take it seriously... because if you do.... well, it's a book with some pretty toxic characters. Rachel is a whiny (actually, she whines all the time), manipulative spoiled brat who at no time thinks about anything but her brown pussy. Jake is an insecure little boy who has a lot of self-esteem to work on, the author says he's a golden reteiever, but perhaps he's the most toxic. Caleb could have been an interesting character if he had accepted his sexuality and communicated more, (as it looked like he was going to). And Ilmari... look, the guy is possessive as fuck and has monumental trauma. But hey, they're all possessive as hell and carry their traumas with them. If I dig deeper into the plot, I get more pissed off: their (the boy's) sexuality is specifically misrepresented, because they never admit that they like boys; the relationships between them.... (I think it would all make more sense if Caleb and Jake had something going on before Rachel arrived, if Ilmari had entered the relationship through Jake or Caleb, not Rachel). And worst of all, how toxic and unrealistic relationships and sex are, and that this is available to young impressionable girls. Zero judgedment if you read it as an adult with a head in orden to have a good time, but making it available to young girls seems very dangerous to me and normalizes horrible and super toxic things.
Not LGTB+ friendly at all!!!!!!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Vomit, Addiction, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Sexual harassment, Biphobia, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Stalking, Cursing, Homophobia, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Medical content, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death of parent