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Black & White by Malorie Blackman

28 reviews

dietvanillecoke's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Abortion, Bullying, Death of parent, Gun violence, Mental illness, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Suicide, Violence, and Vomit

Minor: Abandonment, Blood, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Rape, Sexual content, and Xenophobia

readerforfreakinglife's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.5

This is a great book. It’s definitely a page Turner. Huge plot twists and a heartbreaking ending that you would not expect. Recommend reading the rest of the series definitely a lot more things happen. One of my favourite books 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, and Racism

Moderate: Abortion and Sexual content

Minor: Toxic relationship

cuara17_on's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense medium-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

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Alcoholism and Pregnancy

devyngh's review against another edition

emotional 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? N/A

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Minor: Sexual content

booksjessreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad fast-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

4.25

I read the audiobook to this and it was super engaging. I really loved the character-development in this novel and I absolutely loved Malorie Blackman's writing style. This novel is so important, drawing parallels to today's society, demonstrating no matter how much progress we think has been made, there is still a long way to go. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

Minor: Abortion

ellieprb05's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Minor: Kidnapping and Sexual content

looney_moons's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective tense fast-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

4.5

This book blew me away. The change between Sapphy and Callum's narratives created an incredible contrast between Sapphy's (still very real, but) mundane and trivial problems and Callum's systemic oppression and life-or-death situations. The concept of changing the power dynamic in the system so that people of colour are better than white people makes it seem absolutely ludicrous and ridiculous - because, of course, it is. It is genuinely a great way of explaining exactly what's wrong in our system and with racism, colonialism, and slavery. Blackman manages to get these points across incredibly clear while still having an engaging narrative. This book genuinely just keeps on giving - every time I thought I'd figured out and that the book would end, there was so much more, and it was all so good. Blackman's writing is beautiful, and the narrators of this audiobook truly put everything they had into it and it was an absolute treat to listen to. If you know me, you know I do not do well with audiobooks, but I absolutely devoured this in two days and there was nothing else I wanted to do than hear what happened to Sapphy and Callum. My only qualm, and the reason it's been docked half a star, is the uncomfortable age gap between Sapphy and Callum in the beginning. It was simply uncomfortable for me to read about a 13 year old and a 16 year old

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Murder, Kidnapping, Violence, Racism, and Racial slurs

Minor: Sexual content

arminam's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Violence

Moderate: Suicide, Bullying, Kidnapping, and Sexual content