438 reviews for:

Mall Goth

Kate Leth

3.94 AVERAGE

feminist_bookshelf's review

4.0

emotional hopeful reflective 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

hueblee's review

5.0

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: Complicated

enbyreads's review

2.75

fast-paced

reinspired_reader's review

2.5

challenging emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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While there is one overarching plot that spans the full timeline of the book (a few months) there are also several smaller storylines that are never really resolved. I kept getting invested in one, only to have it dropped with no real ending, just a full page illustration with no text and then it was on to the next mini plot.

Even the main plot ended like this.

Liv told people about her teacher grooming her

and it just kind of ended there. Additionally, as someone who has experienced this personally, the reaction of the people around Liv to this secret was nice, if unrealistic to me. Liv tells people what has happened, and everyone believes her and sides with her immediately. Happy for her, but that's not what happened most of the time in 2002.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Chronic illness

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Biphobia

rahbrennichi's review

4.5

emotional funny hopeful reflective 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: Complicated

rachelstacey's review

2.5

challenging emotional funny lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book was honestly just not great. The main character was really annoying and stupid. Overall I would not recommend and I honestly can't believe this is a forest of reading book.

kirstycurty's review against another edition

3.75

hopeful reflective fast-paced

librerika's review

2.25

dark emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I think this was a little too ambitious in how much it tried to cram into such a small graphic novel. Fast paced definitely has a place in ya graphic novels, especially for reluctant readers, but some of the topics touched on in this book, like a high school teacher preying on their students, are too important to be treated in such a rushed and over-simplified way.

sagareads's review

4.0

challenging dark emotional funny

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

hidingzeus's review

3.75

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Fun and nostalgic though messy