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Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson

86 reviews

islesbiyana's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? No

3.25

I closed my eyes, envisioning it, trying to think of anyone I would beg for one more moment with, but only Monday came to mind. I loved her. Well, I mean, not like that. I didn’t love her in a way a girl loved a girl, like romantically. I loved her more like a soul mate loved a soul mate. Who makes up the rules for who your soul belongs to? 

If Monday were a color, she’d be red. Crisp, striking, vivid, you couldn’t miss her—a bull’s-eye in the room, a crackling flame.
I saw so much red that it blinded me to any flags.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Lesbophobia, Bullying, Grief, Gaslighting, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Infertility, Miscarriage, and Ableism

nightlight_reader's review against another edition

emotional tense slow-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Lesbophobia, Ableism, Emotional abuse, and Vomit

planet_taffy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

A solid story of a middle school girl coming of age without her best friend. The flow of the narrative can be a bit confusing sometimes, especially after the final reveal, but it's nothing that a second reading couldn't fix. Jackson does a great job building the setting and introducting us to the cast of characters making them feel fleshed out and whole; I would love to eat some of Claudia's mom's cooking. My only complaint, which is a huge spoiler,

is how quickly the narrative glossed over poor August even though he went missing first.

I found this on a list of commonly banned books so I thought I'd take a moment to address appropriateness for school-age readers: it's a challenging read with dark themes, several sexual references, and a little underage partying shenanigans; it's a fine read for a mature high schooler, and matches in content to other books I read safely at that age.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Child abuse, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Sexual content

muppetymelody's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Death, and Physical abuse

Minor: Infertility, Lesbophobia, Excrement, Confinement, Homophobia, and Miscarriage

anderska1011's review against another edition

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

4.0

This book was much darker than I thought it was going to be. It was very good, and I never want to read it again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Grief, Child abuse, Murder, Homophobia, Child death, Infertility, Domestic abuse, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

soulnius_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Bullying, Child abuse, and Child death

Moderate: Homophobia and Lesbophobia

aebrewer's review against another edition

• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, Death, Lesbophobia, Torture, Bullying, Child abuse, and Confinement

kaerene's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

Oh man. Tiffany D. Jackson is such a stellar author. She just writes these gut wrenching stories and then when you’re least expecting it, she throws another curve ball at you. I’m just completely speechless. I was not expecting the twist at the end of this book and it completely floored me. My students in my home room can vouch for this as they heard me yell “WHAAAAAT??!!!!!!” when I read the big reveal towards the end of the book. 

The only reason I bumped the score down to 4.5 instead of the full five stars is just because I’m still unsure on a few things in regards to the plot and how each chapter was set up. I spent a lot of my time wondering about when this book was happening (and IYKYK). But the rest of the story and the characters were so compelling and so well written that I think this is my new favorite TDJ book. 

I highly recommend reading this but definitely check trigger warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Lesbophobia, Murder, Grief, Mental illness, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Violence

Minor: Miscarriage

mycatmycatandme's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

This book is devastating. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Murder, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Bullying

Moderate: Lesbophobia and Excrement

Minor: Vomit

m4rtt4's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.25

what a page-turner! I was on the verge of tears on several occasions, this book has such an important message. Claudia's self-centeredness really annoyed me at times, but then again my thoughts were similar to hers when I was 14 so I can't really complain. The book had the potential to be 5 stars, but it could have been a tad shorter and there were two tropes I didn't like:

the romantic subplot with Michael (it was okay-ish) and the losing memory stuff. Explains the time skips, but every time the ending is explained by memory loss, it automatically takes away some creativity points.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Physical abuse, Murder, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Racism, Lesbophobia, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Violence, Gaslighting, Infertility, and Excrement

Minor: Addiction and Drug use