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The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

99 reviews

escaping_america's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Body shaming, Violence, Sexual harassment, Racial slurs, Gaslighting, Religious bigotry, Homophobia, Sexual content, Racism, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

platoniciris's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective slow-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

5.0

This book was heavy to read with all the religion  but it was so worth it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Body shaming and Homophobia

taylorsevalia's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Dysphoria, Alcohol, Drug use, Death of parent, and Violence

ryankaybee's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad tense 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: Body shaming, Misogyny, and Religious bigotry

madisone's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Body shaming, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Racism, Religious bigotry, Homophobia, and Sexual harassment

amradio's review against another edition

hopeful reflective 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? Yes

3.75

A decent enough book
I really enjoy poetry and books that use it in their style of writing so I was interested in reading this book
Definitely hard to read at points
A bag of mixed feelings for this book overall

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexism, and Child abuse

Moderate: Homophobia and Body shaming

mudeyizi's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

Moderate: Body shaming

purplepenning's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Body shaming, Religious bigotry, Sexism, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Homophobia and Violence

lisa_m's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

This was beautiful. It is a story about a poet, told through poetry.

It is heartwarming, sweet, painful and so so relatable.

A feminist view into the life of a poc teenage girl who grows up in a very religious family.
The guilt of being different, of dealing with unfairness and ones own failures or short comings.

This is a coming of age story told so beautifully that I feel like I really know Xiomara now. I relate to her struggles and her pain. I was very close to tears throughout a large part of this book. 

It is very inspiring and I feel like everyone should read it. The target demographic is girls and woman and probably also poets but I believe everyone would be able to enjoy this book and take something away from it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Outing, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, Child abuse, Homophobia, and Misogyny

shantastic_reads's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

I absolutely loved this poetic, emotional, authentic, cutting, angsty, and hopeful work.  In terms of YA books, this has to be at the top of its genre. The main character and narrator Xiomara Batista is 15 years old and confronts many issues common to her age - being misunderstood by her family, feeling tension with her mother, questioning her religious upbringing, and experiencing a major crush on a boy at school.  Instead of this being a basic coming of age story, though, Acevedo writes in poetry and prose, uniquely presenting Xiomara's clear and strong voice and poignant story.  Xio finds her strength and peace in writing poetry in a journal her beloved twin brother gifted her.  Ultimately this becomes an essential outlet of personal expression as well as an act of rebellion that empowers Xio to believe in herself.  It's an altogether moving and beautiful book that I can't recommend enough!  Especially listen to the audiobook, read by Elizabeth Acevedo herself - it's so compellingly told.  I'll be picking up anything she writes from here on out.  I give this book 5 stars and a whole lotta love.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Sexism, Misogyny, and Sexual harassment