Reviews tagging 'Violence'

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

27 reviews

tiernanhunter's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Murder, Racism, Violence, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Death, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Deadnaming, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Medical trauma, Transphobia, and Classism

Moderate: Police brutality, Sexual harassment, Murder, Drug use, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Emotional abuse, Addiction, and Sexism

Minor: Antisemitism

erinwolf1997's review

emotional hopeful informative sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Suicide

starla_anne's review

challenging emotional informative fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Homophobia, Deadnaming, Fire/Fire injury, Transphobia, Medical trauma, Violence, and Racism

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

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

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

j4mi3's review against another edition

sad tense medium-paced

3.75

Showed hatecrime in a very real & understandable way. showed both sides very well

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Content Warnings

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

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.

queergoth_reads's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

2.5

I ready liked some aspects of this book. I've not read a lot of young adult non-fiction and I found it very engaging. I think it tells a very important story about both sides of the crime and how it affected everyone involved and how unfair the US justice system is. 

However, I do think this could really use an update. There are various points where I found the language used outdated and uncomfortable. Also while focusing on an agender teen, it felt like this book fell into its own binary of man and woman, and other. There was very little space in this book for the gender spectrum. 

There were also a few descriptions of people that seemed unnecessary and made me feel kind of uncomfortable. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Murder, Ableism, and Confinement

Minor: Fatphobia and Rape