drug abuse

Review: Always You by Trish Edmisten

Nov 22, 2022 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel At 14, Bailey’s mother passed and he became an orphan. His uncle refused to take him in because he was gay, so for two weeks, Bailey was in the foster care system and living in a group home....

FILED UNDER: 3.75 stars, Contemporary, Kris' Reviews
TAGGED: drug abuse, foster care, found family, hurt/comfort, injury, lovers reunited, self published, social worker, Trish Edmisten, veteran

Review: Perfect Flaw by Frank Spinelli

Feb 15, 2022 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Since he was young, Dr. Angelo Perrotta has had one goal: become a wealthy doctor. Growing up poor, being abandoned by his alcoholic father when he was two, and watching his mother die a slow...

FILED UNDER: 3.5 stars, Contemporary, Jovan's Reviews
TAGGED: abuse, doctor, drug abuse, drug use, Frank Spinelli, law enforcement, mystery, One Block Empire, substance use disorder, thriller

Audiobook Review: T.A.D by M.D. Neu

Aug 16, 2021 | 0 comments

Story Rating: 3.5 stars Audio Rating: 3.75 stars Narrator: Steve Connor Length: 5 hours, 47 minutes Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks Book Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks As an Angel of Death, Tad walks through various times and realities, observing and being...

FILED UNDER: 3.5 stars, 3.75 stars, Audiobook, Contemporary, Fantasy, Jovan's Reviews
TAGGED: angel, depression, drag queen, drug abuse, homophobia, M.D. Neu, self published, sexual assault, suicide, time travel

Review: Know Thy Demons by Sionnach Wintergreen

Mar 10, 2021 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Things look a little different than the 1985 most people know. Frank Hope still has to go to high school, but his favorite class is Demonology. It’s important that humans know about demons...

FILED UNDER: 3.75 stars, Alternate World, Michelle's Reviews, Paranormal
TAGGED: demon, drug abuse, high school, homophobia, Love Songs for Lost Worlds series, mental health, necromancer, parental death, self published, Sionnach Wintergreen, suicide

Review: A Desperate Man by Tia Fielding and Lisa Henry

Feb 1, 2021 | 0 comments

Rating: 4 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Newly out of rehab, Quinn MacGregor heads back to his hometown. Spruce Creek is a tiny forgotten town in Nevada, and the last place Quinn wants to be. Because with his last name, there’s only one...

FILED UNDER: 4 stars, Contemporary, Kris' Reviews
TAGGED: addict, criminal, depression, disability, drug abuse, JMS Books, kids, law enforcement, Lisa Henry, lovers reunited, mental health, PTSD, small town, Tia Fielding, veteran

Review: Yet a Stranger by Gregory Ashe

Dec 16, 2020 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.75 stars Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel It is Auggie’s sophomore year and he is moving back to school and into the Sigma Sigma fraternity house. He hasn’t talked to Theo all summer, with distance having come between them...

FILED UNDER: 3.75 stars, Contemporary, Jay's Reviews
TAGGED: college, domestic abuse, drug abuse, Gregory Ashe, Hodgkin and Blount, murder, mystery, suspense, teacher, The First Quarto series

Review: It Takes Practice by Willa Okati

Jul 15, 2020 | 0 comments

Rating: 2.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Short Story Nathan asks one promise of Fitz: that he be there at his graduation from med school. But on the day of the event, Fitz is nowhere in sight. Now, seven years later, with Nathan still nursing a...

FILED UNDER: 2.75 stars, Contemporary, Sammy's Reviews
TAGGED: addict, alcohol abuse, Changeling Press, doctor, Doctor series, drug abuse, lovers reunited, nurse, Willa Okati

Review: You or No One by Olivier Bosman

Apr 8, 2020 | 0 comments

Rating: 3 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel With blessed little help from his pill-popping mother and no interaction with his dead-beat father, Joel worked hard to get from Tonypandy, Wales, to the hallowed halls of Oxford University. That is...