Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas

86 reviews

btwnprintedpgs's review against another edition

challenging hopeful reflective tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Murder

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Racism, and Pregnancy

Minor: Bullying, Cursing, and Vomit

asourceoffiction's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad 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

When I read The Hate U Give a few years ago, I fell completely in love with Starr and her family, and the whole community. So it was so good to revisit them. Maverick felt like a character with a huge backstory and I loved being able to delve into that.

In THUG, Mav has his shit together and he's a calming, safe presence for his kids. So it's kind of comforting and sweet to see him as a scared kid who's in way over his head, and how he develops from one extreme to the other.

It's funny, even knowing the outcome of this book I still had my heart in my mouth at times. This is another heartbreaking story from a community beset by tragedy, but with so much love at its heart. Going so deeply into Mav's history and learning more about him made me want to go back to THUG and see how much I missed the first time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Racism

ems_rxlibrary's review against another edition

emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Drug use and Pregnancy

eyescanbecruel's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Drug use, Racism, and Pregnancy

Minor: Addiction, Abortion, and Alcohol

bookcaptivated's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful tense 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Racism, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Moderate: Cursing, Drug use, and Mental illness

Minor: Addiction, Infidelity, Sexual content, Medical content, and Abortion

maddierose_m's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Pregnancy

vercopaanir's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

It made me furious about the state of our nation and emotional and hopeful for Maverick and his family. I loved it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Infidelity, Violence, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Gore, and Excrement

Minor: Biphobia, Slavery, Medical content, and Abandonment

thebranchlibrary_'s review against another edition

dark emotional lighthearted mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Addiction and Drug use

bexcapades's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Gun violence, Violence, Murder, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

julierambaeck's review against another edition

challenging inspiring medium-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

3.0

This was a good and important book, for many reasons. The first book in this series "The Hate U Give" I really enjoyed, this one not as much. I think this book talked (for me) too much about being a "real man", which I thought was kinda boring and annoying. The topics of this book however was really good and Thomas had some great discussions throughout the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Grief

Moderate: Pregnancy and Abandonment