Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

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

63 reviews

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

max_vampire's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Dysphoria

lexiereads22's review

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

maple_dove's review

challenging hopeful informative slow-paced

4.0

The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater is a book narrating the crime that happened between Richard (he/him), a boy, and Sasha (they/them), an agender teenager. It discusses the event with nuance, and asks questions, including  whether teenage violent offenders should be treated as adults.

To be honest, I can't really find the words to explain this book, nor what I liked or disliked about it. 😅

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Confinement

Misgendering (graphic)

adrianabananaboo's review

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Suicide

cheesepuppy's review

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

Wow. It was almost hard to remember this was a real life event. Slater did a phenomenal job in her writing to really make you feel empathy for both people. This is real. You don’t get clean cut right and wrong. The laws aren’t the answer. 

My only wish is that this had been written by or with someone who could have an own voices perspective. Regardless, this was well done. I’m still torn. I care for both people. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Transphobia and Homophobia

Minor: Suicide and Grief

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

ricardo_reads's review

dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

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