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briannagriffin567's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Transphobia, Dysphoria, Grief, Deadnaming, Death, and Classism
Moderate: Misogyny, Deportation, Death of parent, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Blood
Minor: Ableism, Blood, Homophobia, Bullying, Car accident, Biphobia, and Abandonment
madamenovelist's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Violence, Blood, Death, Grief, Death of parent, Gore, Murder, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Transphobia, Ableism, and Cursing
readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Graphic: Sexism, Misogyny, Grief, Transphobia, Racism, Violence, Murder, Death, and Ableism
Minor: Gun violence, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, and Fire/Fire injury
Missing kids, poverty, deportation, gangs, group homes,thenerdybookwitch's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Deadnaming, Death, Cursing, Transphobia, Body horror, and Murder
Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, Violence, Gaslighting, and Medical content
Minor: Classism, Ableism, Alcohol, Deportation, Child abuse, Vomit, Bullying, and Cultural appropriation
emmasbelovedbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Abandonment, Transphobia, Violence, Religious bigotry, Outing, Medical content, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Dysphoria, Death of parent, Death, Cursing, Confinement, Classism, Child death, Car accident, Blood, Adult/minor relationship, and Ableism
emily_mh's review against another edition
- 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? No
4.0
While the initial conflict of the ending felt anticlimactic,
Graphic: Death, Transphobia, and Blood
Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Deadnaming, Racism, Murder, and Violence
Minor: Body shaming, Animal death, Cursing, Alcohol, Drug use, Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Car accident, Body horror, Vomit, Ableism, and Medical content
booksthatburn's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
I love everything about this book. I needed to read something positive right now and this took my breath away with how reassuring and celebratory it is. The MCs are working through some very tough things (one of them is a ghost, after all) but they build each other up in a way that has this wonderful oscillation where they're almost never sad at the same time and they keep helping each other and making things better. It's the right amount of spooky, extremely affirming
And that's before the ending, the truly amazing ending that I won't spoil, I don't dare. It just wraps up everything so perfectly in a way that fits with everything that came before while still blowing me away.
Usually when I'm reading a book that comes so highly recommended there will be some moment, some turning point where something clicks and I understand what's so wonderful, why everyone's talking about it at a level beyond just being written well. In this book that happened more than once, first early on as I was getting into the book, then again towards the end (that fantastic ending). The characters are great, with distinct narrative voices and solid personalities; I love the plot, it felt like I knew what was going on, what the goals were, and where the story was taking me, while still having room to be surprised in great ways; and the setting is sketched in way that gives me a feeling of how the spaces are connected to each other without bogging the story down in exact geographic detail.
Moderate: Cursing, Grief, Transphobia, Deadnaming, and Violence
Minor: Racism, Death of parent, Blood, Ableism, and Self harm