Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

Skim by Mariko Tamaki

17 reviews

chris_reads's review against another edition

reflective 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

2.5

Pretty underwhelming. Grew on me towards the end though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Dysphoria, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, and Suicide

Minor: Racism, Homophobia, and Fatphobia

kodiex's review

reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Suicide, Bullying, Body shaming, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, and Death

peachani's review

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Racism, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Suicide attempt, Child death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Outing, Pedophilia, and Suicide

pabi's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-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? No

4.0

perfectly captures how pretentious, insufferable and weird I felt in high school (probably on most days I was). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Grief, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Bullying, and Fatphobia

alisonfaith426's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Fatphobia, and Body shaming

witchofthemountains's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Homophobia, Death, Cursing, Body shaming, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Fatphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Ableism, Toxic friendship, Racism, Lesbophobia, Grief, and Bullying

redrosemoth's review against another edition

dark funny fast-paced

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

3.5

This book has great character voice and I think the illustrations are beautiful but ultimately I’m left unsatisfied. The story feels like it ends too soon. It either needed a stronger narrative voice to the ending or it needed more time to work out the themes that were only just starting to be explored. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Suicide, Homophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying

theautumnalreader's review against another edition

dark reflective fast-paced

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

1.75

While the art and writing is well crafted, I was not the right audience for this graphic novel. While it's a coming of age story, and I think it has honest reflections of being in a girl's school that redeem the work, I really should have checked the trigger warnings.

I was neither prepared or happy with the pedophilia involved that doesn't really get addressed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Bullying and Racism

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

itsjadenbaby's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

2.5

This was a very quick read. Lots of triggers but an honest portrayal of how it may feel to be young and not know what’s going on.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Suicide, Mental illness, and Grief

Moderate: Body shaming, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Bullying, Toxic friendship, Xenophobia, and Racism

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Alcoholism

leni's review against another edition

medium-paced

1.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Bullying, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Suicide

includes student/teacher relationship