Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

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

62 reviews

mz_ampersand's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Hate crime, and Racism

good_names_dont_exist's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Transphobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Medical content

Moderate: Deadnaming, Gun violence, and Death

Minor: Suicide

theangrystackrat's review

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, and Fire/Fire injury

avitakaur's review

emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Murder

ppp's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Confinement, Deadnaming, Fire/Fire injury, and Hate crime

Moderate: Medical content and Homophobia

suchacommotion's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

A wonderful piece of accessible, deep reaching journalism. It is patient, informative, personal, and deeply empathetic. It is rightly deserving of each award.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Medical content

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

l_page_'s review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Transphobia, and Fire/Fire injury

bookobsessedmommy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

This book had an almost light tone, which sounds off putting, but it's really what allowed me to finish it. I read primarily to escape, so I struggle to read books that depict the hard and ugly parts of real life. The tragic events of what happened on the 57 bus are told in balance way that humanizes both Richard and Sasha, without excusing Richards actions. There fact that this book is YA explains the basic levels of education the author tries to provide around the gender spectrum, sexuality, mass incarceration, gun violence, and alternative rehabilitation options for juvenile offenders. Slater gives a general idea of how things were at the time of the incident, how certain ideas and legislation effect individuals, and a few glimpses at how things have changed since then. At times, the story seemed to grow arms and legs, delving into the back stories of parents and counselors, but the of life has dealt so many young people a garbage hand and they're doing the best they can to deal with it came through.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Hate crime, Medical content, and Bullying

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, and Grief

samanthamurk's review

3.0

good story, well written, easy to follow, but longer than it needed to be.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia and Fire/Fire injury