Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster by Andrea Mosqueda

6 reviews

zombiezami's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity

Moderate: Alcohol, Racism, Classism, Cursing, Toxic friendship, Grief, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, and Drug use

Minor: Biphobia, Homophobia, Police brutality, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective 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? Yes

4.0

I wouldn't say that I loved this book, but I did enjoy it. It was interesting. I liked getting the know Maggie as she explores her friend crushes through her art project. This book has a lot of heart. I was a little put off by the drama that happens suddenly toward the end. It seemed a little disproportionate to me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia

Minor: Grief, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Gun violence, and Police brutality

baguettegay's review

adventurous emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective 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

5.0

God, I loved this. As a young queer person, I wish I could have had books like this to validate everything I was feeling (and boy oh boy, was I feeling all the feelings at once)

This book felt familiar in the best way. The reminder of how significant and big those platonic (and maybe not so platonic) relationships you have in high school are; whether they exist after high school or not. They mean something. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent and Gun violence

danileah07's review

slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia

Minor: Death of parent, Police brutality, and Gun violence

melaniereadsbooks's review

hopeful lighthearted reflective 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? Yes

4.5

Thank you to Netgalley and Fierce Reads for an arc of this book.

Maggie is a mess. She's a little upset that she feels like such a bisexual stereotype, but she knows that people can be a little messy. In an attempt to understand herself better, Maggie creates a private instagram to post photography of the three people she might have feelings for so she can hopefully figure her crap out--and ace her art project. Everything gets--messy. Will she be able to sort herself out in time for her sister's quince?

This was so fun and refreshing and wild and I really loved it. Maggie is a great character! I often feel like a disaster pan/queer, and I really related to a lot of the struggles she was having throughout the book. I also really liked her friends, sisters, and other supporting cast! Maggie's photography was such an interesting feature and it felt like she was a real person that I was really rooting for throughout the book.

She definitely messed up at times, but I thought the deep-talks with her friends to really figure out what was going on were super satisfying and really showed the two sides that need to take responsibility in most arguments. Yes, Maggie was messy, but hey, all people are, and that was a great theme of this book.

I loved it! Such a fun read!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, and Biphobia

Minor: Pregnancy, Police brutality, Gun violence, and Drug use

uranaishi's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Death of parent, Drug use, and Pregnancy

Minor: Abandonment, Biphobia, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Alcoholism, Police brutality, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship