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Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson

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lynxpardinus's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective sad tense

4.5


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uhhlexiconic's review against another edition

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

4.75

A stunning portrait of a young girl's life before and after her best friend goes missing, Monday's Not Coming manages to walk the fine line between depressing and hopeful.

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cookiecat73's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

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hellojay's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Alll spoilers. You’ve been warned

Liked: the amount of characters didn’t feel like too much or anything. Everyone was interesting in their own way too. 
The level of suspense was amazing
Loved the mentions of music, history, Black culture & slang etc. everything flowed
Liked that they added that Claudia’s mom saw her on her last day. Like that was…chilling
I liked that the main character was dyslexic and whatnot. Don’t see much rep IMO  
Loved that she added a part of Monday’s diary.
Loved the talks about colors too

Some parts like the drugs…thought that’d  be the reason why she did it

Disliked: sometimes Claudia felt annoying or too naive or too…I don’t know. Too many mentions of “if Monday was here I would—“ but then she was so quick to throw the diary under her bed 
The timelines but I get it. Think it was like that because Claudia’s mind was like that
Didn’t really care for the plot twist that Claudia was just reliving things. But, at least things were wrapped up well.
Claudia’s parents age gap was gross to me
Claudia’s dad 
(Ofc Monday’s mom, but that has nothing to do with how she was written? Like she’s the bad person. I am to hate her)


Can’t tell about April? Like, i don’t get if they were saying she killed Monday because she was gonna talk…because she said she didn’t even know if she was gone

This is linked to a real story. It’s such a sad real story, and this one…wow my heart aches 


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surefinewhatever_'s review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional sad

4.5

I have no words. This book is HEAVY. The writing at times is absolutely breathtaking. I struggled with the time jumps throughout the story, but it didn’t much change my overall thoughts and feelings. Also, I cried. A lot.

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julienicole1106's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0


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lilacwhisker's review

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dark emotional hopeful sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

Reread this book because I thought it would be a quick and fun throwback. I think part of the reason why I'm rating it lower than last time is because the twist does not hit as hard the second time lol. Still pretty good and an easy read. 

Review from August 2022:
5/5
I LOVED this book. For a 400+ page book it kept me hooked and the plot twist made me want to re-read the whole story again. This was insanely sad and I love how the characters are written. Overall, a must-read!!!

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brandywinebooks's review

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dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes

4.0


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swappedmisfortune's review

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

4.75


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sophafie's review against another edition

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dark 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

4.25


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