Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

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

7 reviews

bookishperseus's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Medical content, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Confinement, Hate crime, Deadnaming, Child abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide, Racism, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Hate crime, Medical content, Gun violence, Grief, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Murder, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Rape, Forced institutionalization, Bullying, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Drug abuse, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Classism, Child death, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

Minor: Bullying

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

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.

pollyhall's review

challenging emotional informative sad fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Transphobia, Drug use, Drug abuse, Medical content, and Suicidal thoughts

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