Reviews tagging 'Racism'

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

35 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

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

ingame's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Homophobia, Racism, and Violence

elizakay's review

challenging hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Racism

the_embodiment_of_chaos's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racism, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Deadnaming and Death

Minor: Homophobia, Suicide, Sexual assault, Murder, Hate crime, Dysphoria, and Bullying

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

jkw7072's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Transphobia

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

mccbooks's review

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Deadnaming