Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel by Jason Reynolds

20 reviews

daniellekat's review

dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

I have no words to describe this book. I am in awe. Stunning artwork and beautifully written. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Child death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Blood

Moderate: toxic masculinity Minor: gangs

bella_spelman's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child death, Gore, Death, Racism, Gun violence, Grief, and Classism

zohannah's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child death, Murder, and Gun violence

Moderate: Drug use, Grief, Racism, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence

cozyreader9752's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Grief, Death of parent, Gun violence, Murder, Death, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

avisreadsandreads's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-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? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Child death

Moderate: Death of parent and Blood

Minor: Drug use

alexisgarcia's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

wow wow wow. this was so heartbreaking. the art style was the best part in my opinion. it was absolutely beautiful and added to the story. i just wish we got more of a resolution to the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Murder, and Child death

bujoxbooked's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-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? No

5.0

Only book read this month and it’s my first graphic novel!

Kinda wish I read the novel first but this still was a beautiful read regardless! The art work is beautiful and great job telling/showing the story of those who deal with this cyclical violence on the regular. Would’ve been great to know what happens next though, but guess it’s just left to the reader’s imagination 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Gun violence, and Death

rayannotates's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gun violence, Drug use, Death, Blood, and Violence

pika_chuu's review

emotional sad tense

4.75

Powerful read. Illustrations and words were amazing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Blood, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Death of parent and Gun violence

kaitlynnnng's review

challenging emotional reflective 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

2.0

This is another book that’s difficult for me to rate.

I’ll start off by saying that I’ve read other books by Jason Reynolds, and I loved them, and I do think Long Way Down is an important book, so I don’t regret reading it, and it’ll definitely go in my classroom library, but it didn’t really do anything special for me.

This book tackles important topics like cycles of violence, and it reminds readers that what you’re told to think or do isn’t always the right thing to think or do. It was just incredibly brief! A majority of the story takes place in a 60-second time span, so I feel like I didn’t have time to know the characters or connect with them on any level. This is especially true of the people Will meets in the elevator. For a majority of the book, I wasn’t sure if these people were actually dead or if they were just believed to be dead, and they were introduced so quickly after one another, which left me distracted and confused.

I did listen to the audiobook while I read this graphic novel, and I enjoyed Jason Reynold’s commentary at the very end. It was the best part!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Gun violence

Minor: Child death and Death of parent