Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Smoke by Ellen Hopkins

8 reviews

czoltak's review

dark emotional sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Child abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Gun violence, and Domestic abuse

lilli_vanilli's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Domestic abuse and Rape

knottynelly's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Domestic abuse, and Sexual assault

llamaa's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Religious bigotry, Child abuse, and Misogyny

lauraloudmouth's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Bullying, Death of parent, Hate crime, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Death, Rape, Child abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Deportation, Alcohol, Animal death, Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Blood, Grief, Bullying, and Racism

lynnd's review

dark emotional 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? N/A

4.75

Sometimes books written in verse make it harder for me to empathise with the characters. In this book the verse made me feel móre.
I marked this book as rende, because sometimes I was top anxious about what might happen to open the book, which I actually think is a good thing.
I will definitely read more books in verse!

I was going to give this book five stars, but thought the ending could have been a bit less sudden. It just seemed a little bit too good to be true.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Misogyny, Rape, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Gun violence, Alcohol, and Blood

Minor: Lesbophobia and Homophobia

eager_reader_'s review

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Book 127 towards my goal of 290! 4/5 stars does this YA Contemporary read. Whew this one is heavy, just like all of Ellen's books. There are trigger warnings for this one, so please check those before reading if you need to. More family drama! And we get an extra perspective in this book as well. Love the cover! Loved the dual narration! Highly recommend! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Rape

brookey8888's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

• 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

4.0

I did like this a little less then burned. It was still really good and I liked that Jackie had a POV. This deals with a lot of heavy topics so look up trigger warnings. I do love how the girls grew to be so strong. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Car accident, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Violence