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jade13's review
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism
Minor: Cursing
noodlesny's review
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Physical abuse, Violence, Emotional abuse, Racism, Bullying, and Cursing
raix's review
challenging
hopeful
inspiring
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Racism, and Blood
Moderate: Racial slurs
destdest's review
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
3.0
Good memoir! Akim breaks the fourth wall often to give added information, and, while distracting, it doesn’t break the flow of the story.
As I get older, I start feeling wearier of the (true) stories of black and mixed raced people having to continually put up with, endure, and survive virulent racism. No one should be having to put up with this type of garbage!
As I get older, I start feeling wearier of the (true) stories of black and mixed raced people having to continually put up with, endure, and survive virulent racism. No one should be having to put up with this type of garbage!
I do have to side-eye the portrayal of one of the two visibly black women in this book. I don’t doubt that event happened, but the optics of media in general always portraying black women as bitter and jealous gets old.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying, Racial slurs, Racism, and Violence
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