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Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

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denjzen's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

3.5

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laurenexploresbooks's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional relaxing tense 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

4.5

This work was such a powerful and visceral experience. So much truama, grief, violence and vengeance. This book highlighted injustice and racism and homophobia.

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teesaint's review against another edition

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emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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momlovesbooks17's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Wow! Amazing writing. I think this book is going to stick with me for a while. The story was very violent so I don't think this will be for everyone.

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lavendermang0es's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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_bookish_lauren's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

First of all, this needs to be made into a movie, for sure. It's giving part Equalizer, part late 90s/early 2000s crime thriller movie. You've got 2 ex-cons that you would think are past their prime, easily proving that they're not, on a quest to avenge the death of their sons who were brutally murdered in a hate crime. Their sons were in an interracial gay marriage, hence part of the motivation for their murders.

The fathers didn't exactly agree with their sons' relationship, but ultimately loved them and in avenging their deaths, found a way to accept and come to terms with who their sons loved and realized that they were living their own lives wrongly in how dismissive they were.

It showed some pretty significant character development for both Ike and Buddy Lee. They were also a truly unlikely team.

The story was fast-paced and compelling, while also diving into many difficult topics. Please be careful when reading and check your triggers for the content, because there are a lot. Racism, homophobia, transphobia, slurs, on page gore/violence, discussion of the prison industrial complex (specifically the fathers' experiences while incarcerated in Virginia prisons), kidnapping, and others.

The only thing was that the identity of the big bad, the person truly behind everything, seemed a little predictable, at least to me.

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itsame_dio's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

It’s not bad it has some funny lines but it’s very predictable and so I felt like it was a slog to get through. If you don’t mind fridging and like old man action movies (John Wick, The Equalizer etc) then it’s good. Cosby seems to understand (or make an honest effort to understand) the trials and tribulations of Queer people not just Black CisHet men.

I liked the ending tho, it was very touching.

I don’t really like the narrator. He has a perfect serious deep black man voice but anything else??? Nope

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