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Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson

83 reviews

alyvia_jeane's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Death, Murder, Homophobia, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, and Cursing

Moderate: Mental illness, Violence, Physical abuse, and Child abuse

lucyrudd's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Violence, Grief, Child abuse, Alcohol, Bullying, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Physical abuse

faduma's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Gore, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, and Torture

anxiousrage's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

5.0

This book was so gripping I read 80% of it in one night. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Murder, Violence, Child abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Drug use and Sexual content

Minor: Confinement

kshertz's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I couldn’t stop reading. Tiffany D Jackson is so fantastic. The parallels of horror to child abuse and missing children is really impactful. I hope young adults see what she’s saying and this book changes them how it changed me. Fantastic book that everyone should read if they’re in the mood for a tough ya mystery/horror. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, Bullying, Child death, Gore, Murder, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Body horror, Death, and Drug use

emquegeeaye's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

A story that needs to be told & heard, unfortunately. Too often children in the black community are abused and go missing and no one cares. Because if it doesn’t affect you, your kids, kids that look like you or your community you just don’t care. Everybody failed Monday, Tuesday, April & August. Even the Charles family. I do not doubt that the Charles’ loved Monday and her siblings but they were very standoffish in how they handled things. Then the guilt tore them up. Everybody tried to make Claudia seem crazy or want her to forget Monday and just move on but that was her friend. Her only friend. And when that’s all you feel like you have would you want to lose it, let it go or act like the person and your relationship didn’t exist. Often times we hear adults say kids are resilient and they get over things easier than adults but that’s a lie. A misconception. Because how do you get over a lost love, a loss of friendship & companionship? You don’t get over that easily. And everybody that told Claudia she should was wrong. I loved Michael. I loved Claudia’s dedication to her friend. I understand April saw & went through a lot but I didn’t care for her and how she treated Claudia. Didn’t like Patty at all! And don’t get me started on the kids at school. Jacob, Trevor, Carl, Shayla & Ashley could all get the paws put on them. They were faker than a $3 bill. Kids are cruel! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Physical abuse, Child death, Lesbophobia, Murder, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Death, Miscarriage, Child abuse, and Grief

jj_tj's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Child death

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Bullying, and Homophobia

Minor: Violence, Murder, Sexual content, Miscarriage, and Mental illness

tmcphetridge4's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

Objectively, this is the best book that I have read from Tiffany Jackson. As far as pacing goes at least. But the timeskips were disorienting and the content was abhorrent (but intentionally so). It was incredibly difficult to listen to, and incredibly difficult to think about. While the plot twist was shocking (and more well written than Grown/Allegedly), I was frustrated with

the fact that her amnesia was two years of lost memory? And that she was actively out in society/school? Usually cases that are that severe are in intense therapy and guidance to assist the victim, rather than shield them... so this wasn't believable to me. Had it been several months of amnesia? Maybe. But over a year? Two years?? Not as believable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Violence, Abandonment, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Child death, Child abuse, Confinement, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Torture, Murder, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

ayuming_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.5

I didn’t take the reviews seriously enough when they called this book heartbreaking. 
It felt like my soul was being crunched up like gravel as the ending drew closer.

This was such a frustrating read. And it’s done on purpose to make you feel frustrated and helpless because it’s just so enraging that no one seems to care that this child has just vanished. 

The way the story is told by changing between past and present was a nice touch, made more so once the big reveal happened.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Child death, Murder, Violence, Death, Grief, Torture, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Bullying, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Sexism, and Miscarriage

strawberrycandy's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child death, and Child abuse

Moderate: Gaslighting and Bullying

Minor: Homophobia