Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater

8 reviews

wheatlyre's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Violence, Homophobia, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Cursing, Gun violence, Murder, and Racism

Minor: Suicide

tnb10's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

This telling of a true event is eye opening. It was interesting to learn about the depths of gender, sexuality, and attraction. It makes you think and reflect about so many current topics; gender identity, incarceration rates, effects of being incarcerated, laws, and more.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Cursing, Homophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Hate crime

mandi4886's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Transphobia, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, Violence, Bullying, Sexism, Classism, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Mental illness

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Blood, Body horror, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Murder, Grief, and Outing

Minor: Abandonment, Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

morebedsidebooks's review

medium-paced

4.0

As time has passed The 57 Bus has won multiple awards and made many best books list. As well as the dubious attention of appearing frequently in book challenges.
 

See my blog for an in-depth review. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Confinement, and Medical content

Moderate: Hate crime, Racism, Cursing, Murder, Transphobia, Violence, Grief, and Homophobia

Minor: Bullying, Death, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Mental illness, Suicide, Child death, and Suicidal thoughts

This book also discusses the drug wars of the 1980s and 90s and mentions a parent incarcerated for drug offenses.

sunnybugz's review

informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

Read this book for class- a very interesting memoir. As a genderqueer autistic person, I related to Sasha a lot. But as someone who grew up poor and in a rough neighbourhood, I emphasized deeply with Richard. I appreciate the in-depth discussion about the failures of the justice system- especially the juvenile justice system. I appreciate how Richard wasn't made out to be an extreme villain, but rather a teenager who did something terrible but is growing from it. The pacing wasn't my favourite, and the writing felt somewhat flat at times, but the story itself is very important.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Transphobia, Hate crime, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Deadnaming, Racism, Death, Gun violence, Grief, and Cursing

sssssoup's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Sexism, and Transphobia

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Blood, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Dysphoria, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, and Suicide

skullotonin's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Police brutality, Sexual harassment, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcohol, Death of parent, Death, Murder, and Self harm

freg's review

challenging inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, and Suicide attempt