Reviews tagging 'Grief'

On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

20 reviews

chaos_and_chapters's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective relaxing 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Classism, Police brutality, and Cursing

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Death of parent

Minor: Hate crime, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Outing, and Homophobia

immaculori's review

challenging dark funny hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, and Death

Moderate: Racial slurs, Police brutality, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Misogyny

knit_the_resistance's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring 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

I don't know that I would have found this book without the Seattle Public Library book bingo 2023 challenge for the category Hip Hop, but I'm so glad I did. I listened to it and the narrator is truly outstanding, world class, as good as the narrator for Harry Potter. I got so invested in the characters that by the last chapter I had to stop reading and ask someone if anything terrible was going to happen

it doesn't

Listen to this book and then come tell me how much you loved it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Abandonment, Addiction, Drug use, Grief, Murder, Racism, Death of parent, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Abandonment

calamitywindpetal's review

emotional funny hopeful 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Racism, Police brutality, Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Drug use, and Sexism

Minor: Confinement

theespressoedition's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Abandonment, Cursing, Grief, Hate crime, and Drug use

Moderate: Police brutality, Gun violence, Death of parent, Murder, Racism, Racial slurs, Death, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Homophobia

memoirsofabooklover's review against another edition

challenging hopeful inspiring reflective 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? Yes

4.25

This was a really interesting viewpoint of internalised and externalised racism from the viewpoint of an African-American teen from the rough side of L.A. It was inspiring seeing a girl go from blaming everyone else for her problems to realising where her own faults lie and working on them and learning how to find joy in a society that doesn’t always treat her fairly. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Police brutality, Racism, Violence, Death of parent, Drug use, and Grief

Minor: Gun violence and Murder

afion's review against another edition

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racism, and Classism

Moderate: Abandonment, Death of parent, Murder, Grief, and Sexism

Minor: Addiction

readingspaniel's review

hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Addiction, Hate crime, Grief, Gun violence, and Police brutality

agnesbebon's review

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Racial slurs, Gun violence, Grief, Addiction, Police brutality, Drug abuse, Racism, and Panic attacks/disorders

vedpears's review

emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.75

Such a great book! It was very easy to immerse myself into the story - the characters were believable and all had strong, distinct voices of their own. This book included issues facing youth today - class struggles, racial discrimination, violence from authority, drugs infiltrating neighborhoods and lives therein, friendships and romantic relationships, familial ties, people's expectations and judgements... Excellent writing that I became fully invested in.

I noticed a lot of people have a problem with how Bri speaks to her mother and thinks about her ("she isn't polite enough! That's her mOtHeR!")

Spoilers:

These people must be so fortunate to have never had a parent abandon them. Jay decided to take up the hobby of consuming Crack when her husband/her children's father was murdered. Think about it from a young child's point of view. A young child who had to then be raised by a grandparent that clearly resented that same mother would likely develop a sense of resentment toward her, themself. Bri clearly states she doesn't feel like Jay deserves or should be called mom because of this. Of course there is a lack of respect and reverence from Bri - Jayda broke that sense of security and trust! It's great she turned her life around and came back but that doesn't mean Bri can just magically forget and move on. That was ✨️ trauma ✨️ and that requires a lot of work to heal. Bri's decision making and way of treating others made sense to me. I've met people with similar upbringings who conducted themselves as Bri does in the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Classism, Abandonment, Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Drug abuse, Bullying, Hate crime, Classism, Police brutality, and Racism