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Muted by Tami Charles

13 reviews

tallulahchanel's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Rape, and Drug use

briely's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Child death, Death, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child abuse, Drug use, and Fatphobia

Minor: Pregnancy

cc_shelflove's review

dark emotional 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

5.0

Denver’s goals are simple: Be bold. Get seen. Be heard. When she is met with the chance of a lifetime—the possibility of being the next rising R&B star—she gives up everything in her old life and doesn’t look back. While this book reminded me of the pretend concerts I used to have on my Gram’s pool deck every summer, it certainly was not all sunshine and rainbows. Charles draws from her own experiences to shed light on the utter deceits of the music industry. It was real and raw, and I am still heartbroken at its ending. All I can do now is hope all of the real Denvers and Dalisays of the world make it home safely. 

Side note:  Does anyone know which R&B group the author was in? Apparently my self-taught FBI skills are not working atm! 🤪😵‍💫

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Confinement, Physical abuse, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Drug use and Kidnapping

Minor: Abandonment and Pregnancy

cranedphoenix's review against another edition

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? Yes

5.0

Read this because I had read Tiffany D Jackson's "Grown"
And this book is absolutely heart wrenching like finishing I feel like throwing up more than I did while reading it

I cannot believe that Denver got murdered though like I wasn't expecting that ending it's absolutely heart wrenching especially when you just want Denver and Dali to be together and safe

Do love when they include the social media posts

even though Denver never got to see some or most of them

Not to much to say besides it's a must read imo but one where you have to take the trigger warnings very seriously 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Grief, and Pregnancy

Minor: Murder, Gun violence, and Vomit

yeojinqueen's review

challenging dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Alcohol, Cursing, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, and Death

paperbackparker's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Oh my god, this book!!!! I was on the edge of my seat for the whole thing and that twist at the end literally broke my heart. I really didn’t expect to love this as much as I did, but wow - I’ll never forget this story. Dali and Denver deserved so much better. 🥺

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Pedophilia, and Rape

nefari_'s review

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

2.0

It’s just too much trauma for me.

Not only do you have the main character who is a black young girl who is not only abused sexually, physically and mentally by her grown ass mentor who exploites her you also have to deal with the fact that this main character is a QUEER BLACK WOMAN who is questioning and who has yet to identify these feelings that she’s having and has has gotten no validation of these feelings from herself nor those who are close to her, has experienced homophobia and fat phobia from people she’s supposed to have faith in and trust with her growth, not only do you have that but you have to deal with the fact that she does not make it in the end, that she dies and we are supposed to be satisfied that oh she’s avenged in the end because everything comes to light and he’s punished like no I’m not satisfied with that at all I’m HURT you put me through all of that traumatic experience of reading that and expect me to be satisfied with that ending no I’m not I’m hurt I’m sad I’m upset and I don’t like this book because it it’s too much it’s too much trauma for me to justify what’s in here as someone who is a queer black “woman” I don’t want to read a book in which “I“ don’t make it, in which death is the end for me no.

Plus, that teenage communication was horrendous don’t nobody talk like that💀.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Vomit, Gun violence, Pregnancy, and Drug use

uranusatan's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

bookdragon217's review

dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.5

Thanks to @scholasticinc and @coloredpagesblogtours for the gifted copy.

Muted by Tami Charles is a timely and necessary read that illuminates the dirty, secret side of the music business and how it preys on young girls of color, steals their dreams and eventually their innocence. The industry perpetuates the impossible beauty standards, fatphobia, violence against women and promotes low self esteem and self hate of being a Black and brown girl in a white washed world. The story is ripped from the headlines but the message will hit you like a ton of bricks. Once I started reading I could not tear myself from the pages. This book grabs you by the throat and suffocates you with raw emotion. You want to yell. You want to scream. You want to do anything to warn Denver of the danger that lies ahead. The ending left me in shambles and I was sobbing unconsolably. I was utterly devastated and my heart literally broke in a million pieces. I'm still thinking about all the girls like Denver and how our society  has failed them, silenced them and stolen their dreams by refusing to cast out rape culture, misogyny and patriarchy.

🎵 Black and brown girls need protection. Believe them period.
🎵 Predatory men should be punished, not innocent girls who are the victims.
🎵 Teenage girls are not adults and deserve love, support and nurturing.
🎵 Stop silencing girls. End rape culture.

Here are some quote that stay with me:
🎼 there lived a girl
  racked with pain,
 drilled down to the none
  who suddenly felt
  her body was no longer her own

🎼 The body splits itself in two.
 The before
and 
  The after
  The before was for me;
 an imperfect sculpted 
  shell of who I chose to be.
 The after,
 that is for him,
 or I guess,
 them.

Read this book because we owe it to our girls to do better and stand up for them. Read this book so you can protect future generations. Read this book because you're ready to use your power to help girls regain their voice that may have been muted.

To all the girls: I SEE YOU AND I BELIEVE YOU

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Confinement, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

lettuce_read's review

dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Death, Kidnapping, Drug use, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Homophobia