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Juliet Takes a Breath: The Graphic Novel by Gabby Rivera

12 reviews

emkauffman2's review against another edition

emotional hopeful fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

nerdysread's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-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

A beautiful coming of age story about Juliet a young lesbian who wants to find who she is. This story follows her during the summer where she discovers the POC queer community, herself and love. I really really liked it 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Misogyny and Religious bigotry

shaipanda's review against another edition

challenging hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

4.5

I really really enjoyed reading this !! It was an absolutely beautiful graphic novel as well as storyline but I definitely agree with other people that it could be a bit confusing at times without having read the full length novel so I definitely wanna go back and read that :) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Biphobia

berodatheelf's review against another edition

emotional informative 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Sexual assault

violet_pages's review against another edition

emotional funny 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Minor: Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, and Transphobia

khargaotte's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

4.75

This book made me smile! There are so many characters to love in this book, and love is indeed a big theme in there. We follow Juliet as she comes to terms with what it means to be a brown queer woman, finding people who help her learn to accept and love herself. 
I particularly loved the art style as well, full of soft lines and warm colours. 
The only negative point for me was that the narration and transitions from one scene to another were sometimes hard to follow, but that might come from the fact that this comic was adapted from a novel, and stories don't always translate the same in these two medias. Still an excellent read overall! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia, Homophobia, Racism, and Sexual assault

Minor: Toxic relationship

Even though these elements are present in the story, they are adressed as such in a way that is positive and affirming for the main character, towards whom most of them happen, and they do not detract from the hopeful tone of the story.

macsenbesemer's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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? No

4.0

I don’t really read graphic novels often, and I didn’t read the novel version, but I really enjoyed this. The art was interesting, and the story was good. Most of the things I didn’t like about this story were actually just things I don’t love about graphic novels, so I can’t really fault it for that. Overall it was really good!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Minor: Infidelity and Misogyny

reading_between_the_trees's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring 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

5.0

Absolutely incredible. The story alone is amazing, addressing hard and important topics of whitewashed feminism, queer BIPOC spaces, and reserving the privilege of your friendship and love for those who value you and respect you, but the graphic novel took the story to a whole new level. The artwork was beautiful and for me made all the emotions of the story even deeper and richer. I would recommend reading the original book first, and then picking up the graphic novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Body shaming, Homophobia, Infidelity, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

kirby's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring 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

4.0

This was a really fun adaptation of the book Juliet Takes a Breath. Some things changed, yeah. I think they did a good job of making things work, and I actually felt like some of the changes were appropriate and more well suited to Juliet and the other characters. I'd definitely give this a read after reading the book, though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, and Sexism

Moderate: Biphobia, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Minor: Infidelity

mollyrose's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

• 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

Moderate: Biphobia, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Transphobia