Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

All-Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky

29 reviews

hazel_oat's review

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, and Excrement

daniellemjoyce's review

dark hopeful fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Drug use

Moderate: Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

frances_frances's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.0

The prose was so sharp and the unnamed narrator was complex and believable. And the way intergenerational trauma was dealt with was interesting. The pacing was a bit uneven for me. The first half really flowed and the second half wasn't as tight. As an aside, I don't think I'm super into coming of age story lines. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Drug abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Self harm, Sexual violence, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, and Child abuse

jamesfitz3's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad 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

3.0

If you like character driven books about anxious lesbians here’s another for you

I did not think the end of this was bad, contrary to some other reviews I’ve seen 

It was a fine book

I think that it’s a little unrealistic how easily the mc gets over her addiction with no relapses

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Drug use

Moderate: Sexual assault and Pedophilia

samcanuel's review

dark emotional reflective 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

3.5

The characters and plot of this book are quite messy, but it was beautifully written and very honest. The story had so many layers, between the main characters’ struggles with addiction, her identity, her family, and her love life. Each layer and the ways that they intertwined were treated with great care.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Drug use, Alcohol, Cursing, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Medical content

Moderate: Blood, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Death, Hate crime, Infidelity, Abandonment, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Cancer, Vomit, War, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Suicide

skylarak's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

4.0

Not your typical story about Jewish ancestral trauma! A good reminder that it’s born fair or helpful to paint it all with one brush. Came for the Moldovan Jewish representation, stayed for the squirrel candies, sour cherry varenkiki, mamaliga, and iguana, and Suboxone rep! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Medical content, Drug use, Addiction, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexual assault, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

vhornstein's review

emotional reflective fast-paced

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

3.0

This was not for me. Though the emotions of the main character were reflective of her journey to find herself, I found much of the book over an overwritten attempt at melancholy. Descriptions felt overly brooding and observing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Addiction

readiculousbookbat's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Addiction, Genocide, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Vomit, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, and Miscarriage

Minor: Abortion, Antisemitism, and Animal death

siriface's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Mental illness

erachelc's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Drug abuse

Minor: Sexual assault