Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez

16 reviews

mrsgreenberg's review

tense slow-paced

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

1.5

This book has a lot of cussing in it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

deelightfulreads's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Violence, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death, Death, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, and Toxic friendship

internationalreads's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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: Cursing, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual violence

good_names_dont_exist's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

To everyone saying that there’s too much cursing. It takes place on Staten Island. The cursing capital of the USA.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, and Grief

Moderate: Child death, Sexual assault, and Kidnapping

Minor: Medical content, Death of parent, and Murder

stephanielee's review

emotional funny 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

Moderate: Violence, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Bullying, Cursing, Drug use, Sexual assault, Vomit, and Death of parent

lsm's review

emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

This was really good. It offers a very real but unique telling of the aftermath of what happens to a family after a child goes missing. It’s told through multi pov, several years later when hope makes a surprise appearance. I can
recommend this one. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Minor: Bullying, Child death, Domestic abuse, Violence, Medical content, and Pregnancy

tashtasher's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Pedophilia, Kidnapping, and Grief

Moderate: Bullying, Sexual assault, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Cancer, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Deportation

librarianjennifer's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Minor: Bullying, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Medical content, and Murder

delz's review

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.5

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez is a layered social commentary. Living in poverty means limited access/choices in food, employment, and housing. This also means that if you fall under the description of POC and are poor and you disappear the police/press are either going to blame you or just not be bothered looking for you. Ruthy is the middle daughter in the Ramirez family. The family struggles. Both parents work and live paycheck to paycheck and the three girls are struggling students. In 1996 Ruthy was expected home no later than six, but when she doesn’t come home by seven Dolores loads her other two daughters into the car to look for her. Days turn into months, and months turn into years. The stress of the  disappearance leaves dad dead and Dolores with an illness.  Now it’s 2008 and Nina the youngest has just graduated college and can’t find a job. Jessica the oldest has had a baby and works in a hospital. One night Jessica’s insomnia has her watching a particularly nasty reality tv show when she sees someone she’s positive is Ruthy. Each chapter is from the pov of the three sisters and the mom. Their thoughts about Ruthy, their own lives and their feelings about each other. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Violence, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Cancer, Homophobia, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Vomit, Medical content, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

atamano's review

dark emotional sad fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Murder, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Chronic illness and Vomit