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Punk 57 by Penelope Douglas

80 reviews

mouwuol's review

medium-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Sexual violence, Violence, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Cursing, Classism, Child death, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Hate crime, Grief, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Addiction, Blood, Alcohol, Bullying, Sexism, and Death

jasfieldx's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Punk 57… what can I say, this book has been on my TBR for at least 2 years and after mixed reviews and putting it off I finally bit the bullet and jumped in.

This book takes you on all sorts of twists and turns that really aren’t expected! There is a lot of suspense and tension built up within this book and a lot of wtaf moments that, tbh I’m not entirely sure were very relevant to the story line and the book may have flowed slightly better without so many paths that the characters went down 

The spice in this book was good, it wasn’t too cringe and didn’t happen on every single page so when if did happen, it was creating a moment between Ryen and Misha that made their relationship feel special and created depth between them. 

3 stars because it’s a good, fast paced book with a good storyline, likeable FMC but the book has some flaws like the MMC romanticises fairly toxic behaviours from the start that don’t really improve until the end of the book, the bullying across the board just isn’t really needed and the ending is just a bit flat but, I’d still recommend this book because I did enjoy reading it and will be reading more from Penelope Douglas soon

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Death, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, and Cursing

lancy's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

The book was good loved the character development but most sense made me tense up a bit or were to uncomfortable scene that made me realize how much I hated men but overall it was a Good book donnot recommend for kids under the age of 13 -15  ...yeath the scenes are too graphic 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Drug abuse, Stalking, Blood, Body shaming, Animal death, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, Rape, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Self harm, Sexual assault, Car accident, Cursing, Death, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Slavery, and Suicidal thoughts

fashion37's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Toxic friendship, and Death

darkromancefiend08's review

challenging dark funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This book... was everything the first time I read it. I loved it. I'll always be a little bit biased towards Penelope Douglas anyway because she knows how to write a female main character that I won't completely hate. The MMC, Misha, was a dark, tattooed broody soul. He definitely gave me butterflies and fanny flutters. I can get behind the FMC, Ryen, after a couple chapters. Her character development was absolutely gorgeous. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Homophobia, Toxic friendship, Grief, Death, and Cursing

ekmartin's review

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Cursing, Body shaming, Child death, and Alcohol

Minor: Eating disorder, Grief, Pregnancy, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

jesshart8's review

tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Sexism, Death, Cursing, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

laneelizabeth's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense

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

4.0

I put this book off for so long because I was afraid it wouldn't be as good as Birthday Girl or live up to the hype from booktok. I was wrong. It was so much better than I could have expected so many twists and turns and such a good representation of what high school is and how badly everyone wants to fit in. I will definitely be rereading this soon

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Cursing, and Sexual content

teddy_books's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual assault, Grief, Toxic friendship, and Bullying

Moderate: Cursing and Death

Minor: Alcohol, Drug abuse, Body shaming, and Blood

angeliquescollection's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.25

it’s been three weeks but I’m finally doing this review. Honestly I freaking love this book. I read it and four stars right off the bat but I’m switching it to 4.25 right now. 
I’m over here filling out my digital reading journal, and as I was putting Punk 57’s picture in to my library, I was like I actually really liked this. I like this more than Magnolia Parks.
I feel like there was more depth to this book. I really loved Misha as a character. And although Ryen is in high school, she seemed so mature for her age.
 I love the little messages on the walls I kind of guessed who was actually leaving them here earlier than I thought I would, but it was a nice little mystery for me to find out.
I love the dark morally grey characters. I hated Ryens friends though. 
You know how sometimes you get letters or something in a book and you’re kind of like “i’d rather skip these,” i your head? I did not feel that way in this book.
I'm the type of person that will read the book and feel in the moment but once the book is over, I kind of forget a lot of the information but I remember the feeling that I got from reading. Since it’s been three weeks it’s kind of hard for me to bring up every single thing I loved, or hated so I’m not going to try. I just know I felt really good reading this book. and I read it so quickly, I think it only took about a week, which is quick for me. The spicy scenes were immaculate. I rated spice level 3 1/2 out of 5. I’m pretty sure it could’ve been way spicier but for high school romance it’s spicyyyyyyyy. Oh my gosh, I’m remembering the moments in the car when they went to the drive-ins.😮‍💨🫢🫢🫢
All in all 4.25 out of 5 stars.
This is my highest rated book so far and it deserves it.
🌶️🌶️🌶️ 1/2 /5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Cursing, and Bullying

Moderate: Grief, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death