Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

6 reviews

fromundertheashtree's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Addiction, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Drug abuse, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Mental illness

honey_pie's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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

3.75

this book is a hard read at times & also some of the writing is a little cringe. but some of it is absolutely beautiful & I'm glad it ended happily. recovery is a hard thing to do & I think this book has a fairly accurate representation of that (as far as I know)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Self harm, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Car accident, Body shaming, and Blood

chandra_kiran's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Amazing book, but PLEASE read content warnings before starting this!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse

erinwolf1997's review

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Self harm, Body horror, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, Blood, Eating disorder, Death, Medical content, and Bullying

Moderate: Alcohol, Car accident, Drug abuse, and Forced institutionalization

madisonkray21's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

I really really really did not like most of this book. I found the main character, Lia, unlikeable at best and overly selfish at worst, but as the book wore on I think I could understand her better. (It does seem kind of insensitive that I didn’t like her but eh) I feel like this is a book that certain people should be very careful about and others shouldn’t even read, because despite its bringing to light a very important issue, it does so I a way that is what I assume would be problematic ally triggering for someone going through that same issue. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Death, Drug abuse, Body shaming, Dysphoria, Medical content, Self harm, Alcoholism, Fatphobia, and Vomit

Moderate: Car accident

jdhaliwal's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt