Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie

8 reviews

gus717's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Drug abuse, Murder, Drug use, Violence, War, Gore, and Torture

Moderate: Addiction and Alcohol

Minor: Rape, Sexism, and Incest

downtowndaly's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Alcohol, Violence, Alcoholism, Gore, and Murder

Minor: Drug abuse, Sexual violence, Cannibalism, Drug use, Incest, Torture, and Rape

chungledown_bim's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny inspiring fast-paced

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

5.0

Ugh, wonderful. Hilarious, bloody, inspiring... watching characters overcome crippling adversity to return as immediately as possible to the problematic behaviour that set their adversity in action to begin with? *chef kiss* Just about the perfect book for me, no notes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, and Torture

Moderate: Death, Addiction, Body horror, Colonisation, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Incest

da3m0nic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Vomit, Grief, Alcohol, Cursing, War, Toxic relationship, Blood, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit, Medical trauma, Torture, Alcoholism, Genocide, and Kidnapping

Minor: Misogyny, Confinement, and Incest

eh1736's review

challenging dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Vomit, Violence, Drug abuse, Blood, and Gore

Moderate: Sexual content

iono's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, and War

Moderate: Alcoholism, Torture, Drug abuse, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Incest and Sexual content

scylla87's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense medium-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

Dark and hilarious from pretty much the start, this book is a great continuation of The First Law trilogy. A lot happened in this book, and occasionally it began to drag a little bit. There could have been an opportunity to dive this into more than one book, but I am glad that Abercrombie chose not to do so. There were some things that could have been expanded upon had there been more than one book, but stretching out the story would have made the slow parts all the more difficult to get through.

Of course, Nicomo Cosca was the best character in this book. From the moment he came back onto the scene the book got all the more better. Absolutely everything he did and said was amazing. I look forward to seeing what happens to him next.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Incest

nyne's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Addiction, Blood, Death, and Drug abuse