Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

Home Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo

6 reviews

readingwithkaitlyn's review

reflective medium-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Islamophobia, Racism, Bullying, Hate crime, and Violence

Moderate: Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Death of parent, Medical content, Sexual harassment, Blood, Car accident, Classism, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

9/11 mention.

aishallnot's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Islamophobia

Moderate: Car accident and Death of parent

Minor: Medical content

nonbinarylibrarianwitch's review

emotional mysterious reflective slow-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

Graphic: Death of parent, Bullying, and Islamophobia

Moderate: Grief, Hate crime, and Racism

Minor: Racial slurs, Car accident, and Infidelity

amandalorianxo's review

emotional reflective sad medium-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? Yes

5.0

Wow. It’s moments like these where I don’t know if what I will write will be enough to convince people that this a book worth reading. For those us who are fans of Elizabeth Acevedo’s work, @safiamafia writing is similar but holds her own as we get to know Nima & her family. Roughly 211 pages of emotion, what if’s and a mere inkling about what happens when a teenager wants to know so much but is unable to seek out answers in a way others easily can. Nima is the child of Aisha, a single mom who is not ashamed of where she comes from nor the Arabic language in which she speaks. I saw a lot of Nima in myself - despite the fact that she’s fourteen - we both struggled in speaking the language our mothers want us to be fluent in and the accompanying jeers / racial tension from the American born kids. There’s a little bit of a supernatural spin to this story that I don’t want to give away but I highly recommend picking this up the next time you are at the library or at your local bookstore. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Islamophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Grief, Death of parent, and Bullying

Minor: Car accident, Torture, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, and Physical abuse

courtneyfalling's review

emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I wasn't sure how the highly introspective novel-in-verse form was going to work for me at first, especially since Nima starts as such a passive character. But I quickly became engrossed in how she understands the larger world around her and her loved ones, and the second half of the novel really picks up in how it uses this "alternate self" character and Nima's nostalgia for her parents' country. Lots of moments where I teared up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Bullying, Death of parent, Hate crime, Gun violence, Islamophobia, Police brutality, Racism, Sexual harassment, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Racial slurs

Minor: Car accident and Infidelity

readalongwithnat's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

4.0

This was beautiful on audio. I was hooked from the beginning and didn't want it to end.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Xenophobia

Minor: Car accident and Death of parent