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Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson

40 reviews

zombiezami's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

As powerful as the original, if not more so, with the illustrations.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Alcohol, and Cursing

Minor: Eating disorder and Racism

sammymilfort's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, and Rape

antireading's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Bullying, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Eating disorder, Xenophobia, and Vomit

lynna_love's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Devastador, duro, doloroso… No encuentro las palabras correctas para describir lo que vivió esta chica, tuve un nudo en la garganta en todo momento al leer esta novela, me estremezco en solo pensar en las mujeres que habrán tenido que vivir esto y en las muchas que no lograron sobrevivir…

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

jinx_mars's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Bullying, Rape, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Blood, Alcohol, and Toxic friendship

mtnest's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

The illustrations were so well done. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying and Sexual violence

lazuliz's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Rape

Moderate: Racism, Bullying, and Mental illness

kiara_seoul's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

4.0

This story is a lot like Junji Ito’s No Longer Human. An adaptation of a novel turning it into a visual medium. So many of my thoughts from No Longer Human can be applied here. 

It really captures the pain and emotions felt by the narrator. The detail is incredible. And I love how experimental and disturbing the art can get.

My only problem with this graphic novel and the novel itself was the ending. It still leaves a lot of loose ends, which is always a pet peeve of mine when it comes to endings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Self harm, Rape, and Sexual assault

wends_nblw's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

so good. preferred this over the novel ; something about visually seeing what happened vs. reading it hits harder. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual violence, and Self harm

Moderate: Bullying and Toxic friendship

Minor: Racism, Eating disorder, and Xenophobia

robinks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

I haven’t read the book, but the graphic novel version was powerful and some of the images were incredibly haunting. The resources in the back were helpful, and I hope that stories like this will become outdated soon. I docked half a star because the timeline was a little disjointed and clunky, and there are ways the illustrator could have more clearly delineated time passing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Self harm, Body horror, and Blood