Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

109 reviews

savleigh98's review

dark mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

3.0

Didn't like nearly as much as her other book, The Guest List, didn't get hooked in like I did with the other one.
I disliked pretty much every every character, they were all caricatures of personality stereotypes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: War and Homophobia

maddierandolph's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Murder, Drug use, and Stalking

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Vomit and Blood

lizdaniii's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Stalking, Alcohol, Sexual content, Drug use, Infertility, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Alcoholism and Addiction

growfromit's review

dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Gore, Stalking, Sexual content, and Classism

bronzel's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Blood, Cursing, Murder, Death, Alcohol, and Violence

Moderate: Infidelity, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Drug use, and Gun violence

Minor: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Animal death, Sexual content, Fatphobia, and Pregnancy

madeline_p4's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Violence, Drug use, and Murder

Moderate: Homophobia and Addiction

cloudyworld's review

dark mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

I listened to this book and that was fun because all the characters are read by different people, and all of them are talented. The murder mystery did truly surprise me with the twist at the end! I didn't think it was going to be who it was. Is it the best written book ever? No, it was a little cringe and rough at times. But was it a fun murder mystery? Yeah! It was like if until dawn didn't have anything supernatural happening in it. I love a "trapped in one place" sort of drama.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Alcohol, Infidelity, Drug use, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Blood, Racial slurs, War, Stalking, Mental illness, Infertility, and Sexual content

mgree's review

I was half way through and there was more explicit content that I was unaware about. It just isn't something I want to read about. I don't care if I know it happened, but I don't need details. 
Just not something I am interested in.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Abortion, Infidelity, and Infertility

lighterthaneyre's review against another edition

• 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

2.5

A real nice sense of tension was built. The trickle feeding of information to the reader was a bit heavy handed (ex: one POV referring to the victim exclusively as 'the guest' to obfuscate who died), but the slow characterization build worked well. Less impressed by the build of the myster itself - lots of mood, little in the way of clues.

Honestly annoying that the flaws and conflicts between the characters wasn't the spark of the crime. It doesn't count as red herrings if Everything is a red herring and the real enemy was communism personality disorders all along

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death, Gun violence, Stalking, Drug use, and Animal death

Moderate: Gore, Grief, and Bullying

thebelovedreadingnook's review

challenging dark tense slow-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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Infertility, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Stalking, Sexual assault, Infidelity, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Outing