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Punk 57 by Penelope Douglas

25 reviews

laurakwiecinski's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Sexual content

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Death, Mental illness, Child death, Abandonment, and Violence

Minor: Pregnancy

valer1e's review against another edition

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Misogyny, Bullying, Mental illness, and Car accident

Minor: Stalking, Domestic abuse, and Sexual assault

wackzo's review

inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Grief, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Addiction, Alcohol, Cursing, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, and Violence

whosfernn's review against another edition

dark emotional tense 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

1.75

This book feels like something straight from Wattpad, written by some 15 year old girl who's never experienced anything vaguely romantic in her life. Not a single one of the characters is likeable (except for Manny, who honestly deserves so much better). Misha serves to remind me of why I am terrified of men. His theme song might as well be Norman fucking Rockwell by Lana Del Rey. And oh my god, I can not read another 'romance' where the characters just hate-fuck a couple times and decide they're in love without sharing even a single positive moment with each other. I can't do it. I'm going insane.

It's a shame, because I wanted to like this book. I'd heard mixed things, but from what I'd heard about the plot it sounded like something I would enjoy, or at least be interested in. I was not interested. I was either annoyed or outright bored for at least 75% of this book, and that's being generous.

I do want to give the dark romance genre another shot though, so if anyone has any recommendations that are not as god awful as this book, send them my way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Abandonment, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual violence, Grief, Misogyny, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Self harm, and Violence

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Body shaming, Drug use, Sexual assault, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Stalking

Minor: Eating disorder, Pregnancy, Drug abuse, and Rape

amaramorgenstern's review against another edition

Toxic as fuck, mysogonistic as fuck, Creepy as fuck. Protagonistin ist wahnsinnig unsympatisch. Mit 14-16 hätte mir das Buch warscheinlich sehr getaugt. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Grief, Death, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Homophobia, Bullying, Sexual content, Sexism, Panic attacks/disorders, Misogyny, Mental illness, and Alcohol

courteez's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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

5.0

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It really dug into the nitty-gritty aspects of high school, the need to fit in and the horrid expectations we set on each other and on ourselves. I liked that Ryen wasn’t some loveable, innocent female character that most books will proceed with as most people aren’t angels we perceive them to be. I also approved of the way Misha was written, his personality truly shown through the book words making it easy to picture the person he is. The same with Ryen and being able to see her in both her ‘façade’ and the true person she is.

I’ll admit it’s a little slow at the start, and some things said are a little vulgar but it does pull you in.

The absolute revelation at the end that we find out absolutely stunned me.

This book made me emotions go from curiosity, happiness, sadness to angry in many ways.. I connected with the words written on the page and that’s what I truly love when it comes to reading. If I can’t connect to the words written, then what’s the purpose?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Violence, Grief, Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, and Toxic friendship

alleamitchell's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.5

this books starts off as two pen pals, misha and ryen as the teachers believed they were different genders. they spoke for so long, writing letters together until misha decided to go find her, expect he found her in a way he wasn’t expecting. he decided to join her school, not knowing it was hers to find information on his sister that had just passed. while here, he decided to talk to ryen and start a relationship with her, without her knowing this was him. at the school he was called masen. ryen then finds out and feels completely betrayed by this but she cannot give up the feeling of loving him from her past, so misha ends up being forgiven. this book ends happily and ryen becomes a better person after finding misha again. 

i also really really really enjoyed this book, there was enough hatred and sexual tension to carry the book to the end and the way the book was written intrigued me more. i think this book deserves the hype and i would recommend it to anyone! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Death, and Mental illness

Minor: Alcohol

ashleereadsbooks692's review

emotional 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? It's complicated

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Cursing, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Abandonment, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Physical abuse, Sexism, Stalking, Violence, Child death, Death, Hate crime, Infidelity, and Sexual harassment

beccaalina's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

0.75

I've seen multiple TikToks about this book also about what a great book boyfriend Misha is so I was intrigued and due to the pretty good Amazon reviews, I decided to buy this book. Misha is far from being the perfect boyfriend and Ryen is also shit. I've never hated both main characters so much. At least Ryen knows that she's not great, even though that is one of her major problems. She is so insecure that she has to bully others to feel like she belongs. Misha on the other hand sure thinks he's perfect and he's gaslighting Ryen all the time because she does not fit into his picture of her. He doesn't give s*** about consent: Ryen says multiple times no but he doesn't f****** care because he thinks he knows what's best for her. Moreover, he's so disappointed that Ryen does not fit his perfect picture of her that he's constantly trying to change her and calls her out all the time at school. I don't get why they start f****** each other because they seem to hate each other so much and right, I might understand a little why Ryen acts this way but no idea why Misha is making Ryen's life so unbelievably hard, especially because he knows she is his best friend! He is also pretty horrible to all other female characters. I was already triggered when his sister went for run at night which caused him to get super super super protective and him not wanting to allow her to go out for run. I mean it was obvious something's going to happen just to prove him right. I still hate it how he behaves, I know that boys are supposed to be cool and sexy but I was just so annoyed by Misha and his charades. I do not recommend reading this book it was a waste of time. I was hoping he might redeem himself, however, he just stayed the toxic way he was. He and Ryen stayed both crappy until the last page. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Cursing, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

reade's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Mental illness and Drug use