Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

You'd Be Home Now by Kathleen Glasgow

65 reviews

booksofautumn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Abandonment, Cancer, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Body shaming, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Sexual content

danaaliyalevinson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

So, I admittedly went into this one not realizing it's YA, which is not my genre. That said, considering this as a YA book, I think it's an important read about teenage addiction and its impact on families that many teenagers are going to feel seen in. 

I was also heartened by its brave ending that refused to give easy answers, and even further heartened by the author's note explaining her own addiction and sobriety journey, which is most certainly a big part of why, for me, as someone who also has a history of addiction and several years sober at this point, the narrative felt so honest.

Sometimes it did feel like that YA thing where an adult author is imagining what kids these days are like and it's not quite right. 

But overall, a good read and I think an important YA entry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Classism, Car accident, Drug abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Addiction, Alcohol, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

junzoin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad 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

Holy shit man, this book was amazing and honestly hits really hard as someone who goes through similar things as Joey and the rest of his family. However, I think that the ending was dragged out a bit too long, but nonetheless I was still very content with it. It's been so long since I've read this book so I definitely don't have much to say but I will reread it!! All I vividly remember was reading this in one day LOL

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, and Addiction

Moderate: Sexual content, Car accident, and Bullying

hellb_nny's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

I think I expected more after really enjoying Girl in Pieces. it's a good book don't get me wrong but I did expect to enjoy it more 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Cancer and Sexual content

arianne7's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Car accident

Moderate: Death, Bullying, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

livlosiewicz's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-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

5.0

Pros: 

·This was a really engaging book. I was immediately drawn into Emmy and her world, and felt her love and pain for Joey. Emmy and Joey are both imperfect and lovable characters, and I was rooting for them the whole time. I also liked watching the growth of the supporting characters, like Emmy’s dad. 

·The topic is so important, and I appreciated the book challenging the public perception of what addiction looks like, who gets addicted. 

·And a bonus, of course, for the power of theater!! :) 

 

Cons: 

·I wish that more time had been given to some of the plots- like the things going on at school. I guess the point was that despite how awful the school rumors should have been, they were nothing compared to the hurt that Emmy felt about Joey 

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The ending being Emmy’s essay that evaded her true assignment and reflected on her life bummed me out a bit. It seems unrealistic that someone would write those personal things to a teacher. Like why turn in the essay at all? Could she not have just mused about those things to us on her own? It felt a little cliche and disappointing to me.

 

Recommendation: I recommend if you’re looking for a fast-paced, meaningful book and are okay with some heavy topics. Content warnings for substance use/addiction- make sure you’re in an okay place to read that. This is a YA book technically, but one of those that to me transcends the genre and tells an important story about life and love. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse and Bullying

Minor: Sexual content

kaitlynellataylor's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Addiction, Mental illness, and Car accident

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Cancer

jmariereads's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful sad medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, and Car accident

Moderate: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, and Gore

morgan001's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

This book. Even the author said in the note at the end this book was more challenging for her to write then her other books about SH( girl in pieces).  
It’s very hopeful on the subject of joey getting  the help he needs, does he get it? Or does it not work for him? Or will it work? U just don’t know. U won’t want to put the book down once u start reading. 
I love this book. It really gets u and shows u the real struggle of OD and how it’s not jsut as easy to click ur fingers and ur magically back “normal” .
 It shows. The true struggles people go through, the family’s go through, and it also makes u thing about how many people are like these characters. And going through this. And it makes ur feel sad to think about( or it did me) . :( 5/5 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Car accident, and Drug use

Moderate: Bullying and Cancer

pages_rewritten's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Murder, Bullying, Car accident, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Suicide attempt