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Muted by Tami Charles

11 reviews

graciffer's review against another edition

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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Rape, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Body shaming, and Toxic friendship

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

bibliocinephile's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

oh what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck this was so good. it was riveting it kept me up until midnight racing ti finish it. it was intoxicating, it was grief and it was love and i'm shocked and stunned. i gasped out loud. characters bright to life so well with poetry???? when i put this book down i noticed that my heart was RACING

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Physical abuse, Blood, and Body shaming

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

jainnyreads's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Kidnapping, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Trafficking

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

introvertinterrupted's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Violence, Trafficking, Toxic relationship, Rape, Murder, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Body shaming, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Cursing, Drug use, Vomit, Racial slurs, Kidnapping, Homophobia, Gun violence, Grief, Death, and Biphobia

mdemanatee's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

I legitimately don’t know what to make of that ending. This book is and rough and raw. Well done but lots of warnings. But it also feels like it meets YA readers at both the hope and horror. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Confinement, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual violence, and Violence

ashleythebard's review

dark emotional informative 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Physical abuse, and Murder