Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

18 reviews

rayreyes's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

This book crept out of the woodwork and captured my heart. It was beautiful to witness the love and wounds within a family and the humanity of regret. This book felt like a gift to the parts of myself navigating the story of my family and the ways love can be present even when seemingly absent. I’m not religious, but the ending was so beautiful that it gave me something to hold dear when I think on the afterlife. Truly a beautiful story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Addiction

Moderate: Islamophobia, Death of parent, and Cancer

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Medical content, Sexual harassment, Hate crime, and Abandonment

augie_'s review

challenging emotional informative sad medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Islamophobia, Grief, Death, Drug abuse, and Hate crime

Moderate: Pregnancy and Miscarriage

sara_rara's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Drug abuse

acorny's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-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

4.5

Beautiful, heartbreaking, and felt so real. This one hit a nerve for sure, I cried for all the characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Alcoholism, and Islamophobia

Moderate: Bullying, Addiction, Miscarriage, Car accident, and Child death

Minor: Death of parent and Grief

cass_ward's review

emotional reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Addiction, Car accident, Drug use, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Islamophobia, and Alcohol

beth_48's review against another edition

reflective tense slow-paced

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

2.5

I was really looking forward to reading this, I really liked the style of writing. I wish there was more of a story, it was a struggle at times to pick the book back up and carry on reading.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Miscarriage, Death, Alcohol, and Sexism

melinadalet's review

challenging emotional reflective sad tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia, Drug abuse, and Alcoholism

your_true_shelf's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

I adored this book with every piece of my heart. How an author so young can write the relationships in this book so incredibly, wow. Especially between a father and son. I can't imagine never reading this book again, it will definitely be read more times! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Alcoholism

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Racism, and Miscarriage

rishel's review

slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Xenophobia, and Racism

emilylhelt's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Miscarriage, and Islamophobia