Reviews tagging 'Outing'

The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

3 reviews

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-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

5.0

From the cover, it was easy to see this would be a retelling of Stephen King’s Carrie. I loved it. I loved the story but didn’t care for the way the story was told through interviews. Really great way to study race. Another book I would like to teach to high school students. Unfortunately, I’m pretty sure Texas has banned good book in the schools. Grrr…for that reason alone, I’m upgrading this to a five.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Outing, Blood, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Suicide, Bullying, Classism, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Abandonment, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Grief, Murder, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, and Violence

emily_journals's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

If you love horror movies, especially those considered Classic Horror Movies (such as Carrie), READ THIS BOOK! And if you are able to read audiobooks, get the audiobook, you will thank me later. 

This book is told in an epistolary type style, where there's fragments of current day podcasts, court proceedings, interviews, and hospital accounts mixed in with the main story line. This book tackles so many good topics and themes and is such a good reimagining/retelling of Carrie. This story is told in many POVs, but the way these POVs are balanced is so expertly done as it doesn't confuse or muddle the story or characters at all. Each of these characters is so distinct and able to stand apart from the rest so well. Just absolutely perfect, I can't imagine anything making this book better. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Grief, Murder, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Racism, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse

Moderate: Gun violence, Outing, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Self harm, Classism, Abandonment, and Toxic friendship

pandact's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

Tiffany D. Jackson always has her way of making you think and delivering the most satisfying fakeouts, and her fans will enjoy it!
The plot is almost like

Wicked (2003) with the themes of  Riot Baby (2020) and epic gore. Two things bothered me though: why did Wendy think fake dating would help her? Also, I guess it's cool to have an extra with a hearing aid, but why did Maddy stop needing glasses when she got powers and a boyfriend?

The universe sings to meeee!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Police brutality, Racism, Violence, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Hate crime, and Child death

Moderate: Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Physical abuse, Animal death, Death of parent, Classism, Outing, Mass/school shootings, Grief, Car accident, and Body shaming

Minor: Ableism