Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton

5 reviews

spookyaz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-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

3.75

this book was written in such a convincing/interwoven way that I had to stop myself at several points and be like "no, opal & nev was not an actual musical duo"

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Addiction, Alcohol, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Violence, Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, and Injury/Injury detail

readbycarina's review against another edition

emotional tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Death, Hate crime, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, and Sexism

Minor: Body shaming, Blood, Misogyny, and Medical content

sib_reads's review against another edition

emotional 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Hate crime, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Cancer, Homophobia, Misogyny, Police brutality, and Sexism

Minor: Alcohol, Car accident, Cursing, Gun violence, and Religious bigotry

meganlilyflower's review against another edition

adventurous challenging inspiring medium-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

I loved this so much it isn’t even funny. The audiobook is incredible and not only has brilliant voice actors but a clear direction and choices made with the text that are powerful and beautiful. Yes, it has a similar format and feeling as Daisy Jones and the Six (and if you liked that you’ll like this) but also it centers beautiful bold characters and gives almost every character a moment as hero and as villain. More people need to read this, even if it is very widely read there will always be more people who need to. Love love loved it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Violence

Moderate: Racial slurs

Minor: Gun violence

In the audio book the n word is used in full by black characters (who I hesitate to assume are voiced by black actors) and bleeped when white characters are using it. It is not often used in hate but to quote events and titles but this attention to detail means I sited the “racial slurs” as moderate but this is of course a personal take. Not sure what it looks like in print. Gun violence is talked about but never actually done in real time and there is not a scare of gun violence in this story for the reader

the closest we get is out characters thinking there may be a gun while we the reader know it’s fireworks already

internationalreads's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Violence