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Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake

6 reviews

ashmak06's review

challenging dark emotional reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Rape, Sexual assault, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Biphobia, Dysphoria, Homophobia, and Misogyny

Minor: Sexism, Medical content, and Racism

lcp_08's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Sexual violence and Violence

Minor: Homophobia

fairy_internet's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Homophobia and Lesbophobia

Minor: Medical content

covaamont's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Esta escrito de una manera tan bella y realista, que duele, mucho.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Rape

Moderate: Biphobia, Dysphoria, and Homophobia

Minor: Misogyny and Panic attacks/disorders

kazbrekkerswife's review against another edition

informative reflective tense slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Homophobia

snowhitereads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.0

 

For the final book of this month I read Girl Made of Stars for the #SapphicStoriesBookclub.

This book tackles sexual assault, consent, slut shaming and misogyny really wel but beware since it really gets into those topics it might be best for some of you to skip this one. 

I cannot stress enough that it might be extremely triggering for some people.

With that being said, this book was beautifully heartbreaking. 

The writing felt intentionally intimate and the characters were really well developed and complex.

The nuances of the narrative made this book for me.

 Seeing the mixed feelings and multidimensional attitudes of the characters, struggling to understand certain events and other people’s actions, and coming to terms with your past made this book feel very real to me.

Although very accurate, all the victim blaming portrayed in this book was absolutely heartbreaking and infuriating to read.

On a completely different note, it was refreshing to see not only diversity in terms of sexual orientation, but also of gender identity and figuring out what pronouns suit the person best and how to come about telling the parents about it.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Child abuse, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual assault