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The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus

11 reviews

kegila's review against another edition

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Child death, and Drug use

Minor: Transphobia

Incarceration

zombiezami's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This is what The Fault in Our Stars wishes it was

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Child abuse, Mental illness, Outing, Chronic illness, Confinement, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Cancer, Death, Religious bigotry, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Drug use, Kidnapping, Racism, Sexual harassment, Grief, Classism, Alcohol, and Gaslighting

Minor: Gun violence, Suicide, Colonisation, Addiction, Drug abuse, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Police brutality, and Slavery

mswarning's review

medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Child abuse, Cancer, Homophobia, and Drug use

lunar_lapis's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad 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

Still remains the most beautiful, emotional, heartbreaking and empowering book I've ever read 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Racism, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Religious bigotry, Chronic illness, Grief, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Child abuse, Hate crime, Slavery, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Police brutality, and Sexual content

Minor: Drug use, Vomit, and Drug abuse

gabforshort's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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: Religious bigotry

Moderate: Abandonment, Homophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Child abuse, Police brutality, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Death

skudiklier's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Gosh I loved this. I didn't really know much going in, so one of the main plot points really took me by surprise. This book is so beautiful and it made me cry a lot. I'd definitely recommend it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Death, Homophobia, Child death, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Violence, Physical abuse, Drug use, Confinement, Grief, Sexual content, Child abuse, Racism, and Transphobia

Minor: Slavery, Medical content, Pregnancy, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Outing, Murder, and Mental illness

tegzy95's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

This book is an amazingly thought provoking story, and somehow even in the midst of a terminal illness diagnosis, the characters still are able to make the reader feel hopeful. I loved the characters of Audre and Mabel, and the journey that they took in finding themselves even through the difficulties and challenges that they were facing. The growth of their friendship was beautiful, and I loved every second of the journey. The inclusion of Afua and his story really made the book, in the sense of giving Mabel something to live for, and showed that she could leave her mark on this world in a significant way for someone who had helped her find herself in her darker moments. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Racism, Cancer, and Chronic illness

Minor: Drug use and Police brutality

yvonne_cl's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

• 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Religious bigotry, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, and Violence

Minor: Medical content

queersubtext's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Terminal illness

Minor: Drug use

snowhitereads's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring relaxing 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? It's complicated

5.0

 

I read The Stars and the Blackness between them for this month’s #SapphicStoriesBookclub and… WOW!

This was so much more than what I thought it was going to be.

I went into this expecting a sweet contemporary romance, what I got was everything I didn’t know I needed.

It’s a celebration of love, life and of culture and queerness and black girl magic. 

It’s heartbreaking but uplifting, and so full of emotion. 

 

I loved that it isn’t a coming out story or a relationship exclusive storyline.

This book is truly an all around experience.  

The writing is one of the most beautiful I have encountered in a long time, it’s so artful and poetic that it literally brought me to tears. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Chronic illness, Drug use, Grief, Hate crime, Murder, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship