Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

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

28 reviews

greywolfheir's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Hate crime, Homophobia, Gun violence, Racism, Transphobia, Dysphoria, Medical content, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Suicide and Death

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

fred_nom_nom's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense medium-paced

3.25

I don't recommend this book as a first or only source of information on the topic, because you can tell that the person who wrote it isn't directly effected by the things they're writing about e.g misgendering, using deadnames and using words and discriptions which aren't fitting or even hurtful 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Hate crime

Moderate: Suicide, Grief, Racial slurs, Deadnaming, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Transphobia, Death, Dysphoria, Gun violence, and Suicide attempt

allapaz's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

4.5

I read this book in one sitting. That’s how easy this is to pick up and get sucked into. 

Love love love wow so much to unpack, I already want to reread 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Racism, Death, Death of parent, and Gun violence

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

bookedbymadeline's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

 I’m so confused, there’s sooo many people being mentioned that I had no clue what was happening in the beginning. 

The story allows you to view the story from multiple perspectives and gives an unbiased account of what happened. I had sympathy for both Sasha and Richard as the book tells the story of the tragedy of what happened to Sasha, how poorly the case was handled, and the injustice in the criminal justice system.

I don’t get why the author felt the need to deadname some of the people though, really unnecessary to the story. Because it’s written in 2017 (and apparently even when read even then, my point would still stand) some of the terms and discussions on gender and gender identity are outdated.

Disjointed storytelling as the story jumps all over the place; it’s apparently written in a nonlinear timeline. This left me feeling confused and pulled me out of the story. Also the writing style is very detached and almost feels like a textbook especially when it’s interwoven with definitions and statistics. The audio narrator sounds robotic so I would recommend a physical/ebook copy if you’re interested in reading it!

It’s difficult to rate non fiction especially when it’s about someone’s life so my rating is purely based on the author’s writing style choices and the audio narration. Overall it’s an important story that’s easily accessible for both adults and teens to learn from.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Deadnaming

Moderate: Racism and Murder

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.

serena_hien's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Racism, and Transphobia

Moderate: Death and Gun violence

naiu_cs's review against another edition

emotional informative tense fast-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Death, Gun violence, and Drug use

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