Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

74 reviews

eib_21's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Murder, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Alcoholism, Toxic friendship, Racism, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Gun violence

lizziertaft's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative inspiring sad 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? No

4.5

This book was lent to me by my good friend Bailey and I loved it!!! It is chilling, cruel and unacceptable to know that police brutality was and still is very much a problem that needs to be dealt with. These families and communities should never be forced to go this far just to be seen, heard and justified. Starr knew grief, trauma and loss far too young. She is one of many. “Sometimes you can do everything right and things still go wrong; the key is to never stop doing right.” An inspiring quote Starr’s mother often shared with her. They shouldn’t have to repeat this to themselves as often as they do. Black Lives Matter and it’s about fucking time we as a society start treating them like they do. Justice for Oscar Grant. Justice for Trayvon Martin. Justice for Tamir Rice. Justice for them all. No freedom until we are ALL equal, respected and free. I will continue to use my voice to demand this change. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

gamora_zen1's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective slow-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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racism, Child abuse, Grief, and Gun violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Mass/school shootings, Misogyny, Mental illness, Slavery, Toxic friendship, Blood, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Death, Drug abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Hate crime, Racism, Religious bigotry, Addiction, and Panic attacks/disorders

mmadill227's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Murder, Police brutality, Hate crime, Gun violence, and Violence

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Fire/Fire injury, and Drug use

_mm_'s review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

Very important story! I loved reading this book, it was heavy but it was written so well! I really hated and loved characters that is wat makes this book so so so good!! 5/5 one of my faves!  BLM!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racism, Death, Gun violence, Blood, Grief, Police brutality, and Violence

_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

Starr Carter is one of the best YA MCs I've ever read. This book's kinda unconventional writing wasn't hitting the spot for me at the start, but once I fully immersed myself in the story, it captivated everything in me. I loved Starr's inner thoughts and how she detailed and reasoned them. I loved her relationship with both her parents but especially with her dad. It's so wholesome! I also really liked how Angie Thomas showed the every day life Starr lives that is full of happy and wholesome and normal moments but also juggles the moments of sadness where they should be and it doesn't end up contrived. As someone who grew up poor and homeless and living in what folks considered “dangerous” or “ghetto” neighborhoods, I related to this so much. White and/or middle class people some(most)times tend to think that we only wallow in despair and bemoan our life and there's no joy or normalcy. And some even think that's how we should behave all the time, lol! But honestly, fcuk them and fcuk that. I hope they read this book and realize how classist and racist that thinking is. I almost broke down reading the ending, though, and seeing all the names of people murdered by cops knowing so many more could be added in future editions of this book. Which is enraging to me that this book is among the most challenged/banned books list bc none of what Angie Thomas wrote was fabricated with ill intent or a smear. I'm a Latine so I wasn't given the talk in the same way Black kids have, but even then, I think most POC minorities grow up fearing cops one way or another. I know I do. I don't feel safe with cops around. I don't like them. They're nothing but glorified security guards who only exist to “protect” assets. And personally, I have been affected in my life by how cops have stereotyped and harassed my own dad. Reading how Starr has to see her dad humiliated and harassed by those cops messed me tf up. And yet, Angie Thomas went out of her way to be conciliatory and wasn't flat out ACABing pigs which is where she kinda lost me bc actually she should've. There are so many great things about this book and it doesn't matter if you're 16 or in your 30s, this book will speak to your soul and open up many things. It's definitely already a classic. The only thing that's like a me problem that made me take out half star in pettiness was the constant HP references. Like some were even funny, I'll admit it as someone who is not a HP fan and barely has a grasp of the story. And this was published in a time when the HP author was still relatively tolerated and still admired bc she hadn't been openly hostile towards trans people, but still, it was very nauseating tbh. I know I'm not one to talk bc I'm always referencing my favorite book series too, and in REAL LIFE, but I feel I have an excuse, mine is kinda obscure so it's more like a signal to see if someone gets it, but with HP what's the point??? Anyway, that's the only annoying thing going on in the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, and Vomit

Moderate: Domestic abuse

isleoflinds's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Police brutality, Toxic friendship, Violence, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Hate crime

ringamboa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-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? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Body horror, Death, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Drug use, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Racism

brynhayes's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Blood, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racial slurs, Death, Domestic abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Racism, Toxic friendship, and Violence

marissasa's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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? No

5.0

This book is so raw and real, it felt like you were listening to an actual 16-year-old Black girl recount her thoughts and feelings during one of the hardest times in her life to you in person. Angie Thomas did an incredible job developing Starr and the supporting cast of characters, because they all felt layered and complex the way that humans actually are. Everything about Starr from her love of basketball and Fresh Prince to her insecurities about betraying Khalil and her feelings about being split into two versions of herself depending on whether she was in Garden Heights or at Williamson made her believable and real. Watching her struggle and grow throughout the course of the story makes you feel deeply, empathize, and root for her. It doesn't shy away from any of the ugly truths about racism, police brutality, domestic violence, class differences, drugs, gun violence, biased media coverage, or what it means to experience all of it as a young person. I am glad this book exists and that it in itself is emphasizing the importance of one of the major themes: using your voice as a weapon. As the last few pages of the book shows, Starr's voice is the voice of so many Black people both today and throughout history who have watched and suffered the loss of loved ones at the hands of police brutality, and it is one that everyone needs to pay attention to, listen to, amplify, and support. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Vomit, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Child abuse, Classism, Cursing, Grief, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Gun violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Alcohol