Reviews tagging 'Death'

Roxy by Jarrod Shusterman, Neal Shusterman

39 reviews

tazzbird's review

challenging emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Drug abuse

Moderate: Death and Child death

hylian_narwhal's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

oliverreeds's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

writing is good. but its a little heavy handed. doesnt leave a lot of the metaphor to the imagination.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Vomit, Addiction, Alcohol, Cancer, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Child death, Drug use, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, and Mental illness

kate_mare's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

It was very slow to read but a good book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Death, Addiction, Violence, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

kshertz's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.0

This was such a good read and also, deeply disturbing and emotional. It is a fictional story of sibling addiction but at the same time, it has the drugs as main characters themselves. That took some getting used to and felt gimmicky and silly at first but then I fell into the deeper meaning and was able to fully learn and feel the emotion of addiction and the pain from this that is felt by families and the cycle continuing. Hard but good and important read. Surprised it’s YA!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Alcoholism, Self harm, Grief, Gaslighting, Death, Alcohol, and Toxic relationship

dreamsofaplant's review

dark reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Car accident and Cancer

jule23's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Death and Suicide

esme_may's review

dark emotional informative tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

There was a point in this book where I thought I was going to like it as much as some of Neal Shusterman's other books (I loved the Arc of a Scythe trilogy and Dry) as it was easy to get invested, but after a while it got repetitive. I used to be someone who kept up with the author's releases but I'm not sure that I still will given how widely my opinions on his different books vary

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Grief, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Car accident, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

haleymaxinee's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Medical content, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, and Injury/Injury detail

avatas's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Death, Drug abuse, Suicide, Medical content, Addiction, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness

Minor: Cancer and Terminal illness