Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

43 reviews

crabbytaco's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Racism, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Racial slurs and Gun violence

cocoanut7's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

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

5.0

Touching and heartbreaking look at generational trauma and families coming together to love a little baby

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

amschelly153's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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

Beautiful. Raw. A candid story from the perspectives of generations of family. Absolutely incredible.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Death, Grief, and Pregnancy

frankieclc's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual content, Murder, and Homophobia

hngisreading's review against another edition

emotional sad 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: Pregnancy, Cancer, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Racism, Child death, and Sexual content

bookswithlauren's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Gun violence, Dementia, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Sexual content, Gore, Cultural appropriation, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Fire/Fire injury, Racial slurs, Pregnancy, Cursing, Death, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, and Toxic friendship

heatherinthenether's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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? No

4.0

This book is a beautifully written telling of complicated lives. It feels so real and immediate, and read  like a poem. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Death of parent, Cursing, Pregnancy, Grief, Cancer, Sexual content, and Death

Minor: Homophobia, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Abortion, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Grief, Addiction, Alcohol, Cancer, Colonisation, Drug use, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Racism, and Sexual content

mgdsmile's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

Red at the Bone is a portrait of a family, all its generations within a few decades, all their wrestlings. I appreciated hearing each person’s voice- I’m sure there was more meaning to be parsed out through the choices of perspective. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

Death in 9/11

thewordsdevourer's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

first time reading jacqueline woodson and it's quite good. red at the bone is a story abt family (and all the complexity it entails), identity, and growing into oneself. the novel's relatively short but it packs quite a punch.

there's complexity in its characters - i particularly enjoy the polarity between iris and audrey - while also deftly exploring its themes and issues of race, queerness, and identity.

its unique structure, while oft intriguing, can also be confusing at times, making the reading experience a lil disjointed. nevertheless this is a good, surprisingly layered read esp considering its length.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual content, Racism, Pregnancy, and Infidelity

Minor: Death, Cancer, and Fire/Fire injury

aguattery's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

3.0

I struggled for a long time on how to review this book. It read to me as a series of short stories, with time jumps that I had a hard time following and no central storyline. Going in expecting a novel, I had a hard time getting into it. But I do think it had a lot of potential and I would try reading another book by the same author. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Racism

Moderate: Death of parent and Sexual content