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phineasjames's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Mass/school shootings, Blood, Xenophobia, Gun violence, Murder, Mental illness, Gore, Hate crime, War, Violence, Grief, and Death
laverna's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Racism, Violence, and Death
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders
junzoin's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Violence, War, Blood, Child death, Death, and Panic attacks/disorders
maple_dove's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Adults rarely like being told that they don't have all the answers, or worse still, that the answers they do have are all the wrong ones.
If you want to start an explosion, you light a match in the dynamite factory.
Graphic: Sexual assault, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Mental illness, Murder, Racism, Violence, Vomit, and Xenophobia
Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Grief
Minor: Excrement, Animal death, Misogyny, Bullying, and Body shaming
an_everyday_penguin's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Okay, but it's not just the OCD thing that bothered me. That I tried to be more understanding of because it's really hard to have a mental disorder, especially since she doesn't have any medication for it and nobody in her life knows what OCD is so they can't help her the way she needs to be helped. But sometimes the things she did just drove me crazy. She was, at the same time, one of the most passive narrators I've ever read, and the most active. I don't know how. But she would like insist on doing something dangerous, like going out in the middle of all the riots, and then just like be out there freaking out the entire time. It felt like things just happened to her.
I also struggle with that because she is like, 16 and there are people who want to kill her and bodies everywhere outside, so of course she's scared and struggling and just doing her best. There is a scene at the end, though, where I like, cringed and was scared of where the author was going to go. Not in terms of character deaths, but just something that Melati does that made me want to disappear. And then I was actually worried it would keep going and it would have made my rating tank. Thank God the author did not do that, though. If you want to know,
I will admit I did get bored at times. I don't really know how because Melati would be going out and hiding from people and hoping she wasn't about to die, and I'd just be sitting in bed losing focus. I guess at times, it was a little repetitive, with her going out looking for her mom and not finding her. I mean, that's also probably realistic because if they found each other immediately, there wouldn't be a story, but from my standpoint as a reader, it got a little tedious.
Overall though, it was a pretty good book and I do think it was well written. I just had a few problems that I felt like shouldn't have been problems but were. I think I might read more YA books by this author, though.
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Death
some_random_person_hi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Murder, Gore, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Violence, Mental illness, Grief, and Hate crime
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Medical content
Minor: Sexual assault and Police brutality
jediprincess's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Child death, Racism, and Violence
sydthereader's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, War, Gore, Violence, Mental illness, Blood, Child death, Body horror, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Police brutality, Xenophobia, and Murder
turtlebrainlibrarian's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Violence, Racism, and Death
Moderate: Death of parent and Sexual assault
sweeterthanfiction's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Mental illness, Gore, Violence, Death, Hate crime, and Blood