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Luck of the Titanic by Stacey Lee

16 reviews

ajay913's review

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death of parent, and Violence

Moderate: Classism, Alcoholism, and Death

wrensleyreads's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

I'm not a give-5-stars-kind of reviewer, but this one, this gets five stars!  This was the kind of book that as the climax approached, I delayed reading because I didn't want this to come to an end.  

I have a grammatical pet peeve in that the author overused simile like a fish uses water in the early part of the book, but the beauty of story, the power of the characters, and acknowledgment of that this is probably a firmly me-problem, means the 5th star stays!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, and Classism

Minor: Abandonment and Alcoholism

ghostlyprince's review against another edition

reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Addiction, Alcoholism, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Racism, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Hate crime

Moderate: Grief, Misogyny, Confinement, and Sexism

janiscox's review

emotional lighthearted tense medium-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? Yes

4.5

Couldnt put it down. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Classism, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Child abuse, Classism, Confinement, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Body horror, Blood, Deportation, Grief, Police brutality, and Violence

courtneyclouts's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death of parent, Grief, Bullying, Hate crime, Racism, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Deportation, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Grief, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Religious bigotry

ravensandlace's review

adventurous hopeful tense slow-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

2.5

Title: Luck of the Titanic

Author: Stacy Lee

Genre: Historical Young Adult

Format: hardback library book

Star Rating: 2.5 stars

tw: parental death, alcoholism, racism, sexism, death, drowning, drug use

I feel so bad that I didn’t like this book. I’m also disappointed that I didn’t like this book. I have been kind of obsessed with all things relating to the Titanic. I’m not sure why. Sometimes, I get on these kicks. Like right now, it’s Pokemon. So I thought that I would like this book considering what it was about. 

I had a pretty hard time relating to Val, the main character. She’s British Chinese, which I think is awesome. She just really grated on my nerves. I felt she was more of a child than 18 years old. Val very much wanted it to be her way or no way. I understood that she wanted to be with her twin, Jake, but at the same time, she has to realize that Jake wants to do his own thing. He’s allowed to have friends. That part really irritated me. She got upset that he had made friends while he was away on ships. Val just needed to grow up.  

The plot also moved incredibly slowly. There were a lot of day-to-day activities and a lot of Val’s thoughts that took up a lot of page time. The main event, which you all know what it is, doesn’t happen until there are about 100 pages left. It felt super rushed and I was a little confused about what was going on for most of it. Plus the ending made me so mad. I won’t say what it is because of spoilers but let’s just say it’s not a great ending for me anyway. 

Overall, this book left me frustrated. There were a couple of positives, though, that I’ll share. There was a map and diagrams of the Titanic along with a complete character list. This book was also dedicated to the six Chinese men that survived the sinking, so I thought that was nice. But overall, I wasn’t impressed. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Classism, Addiction, Racial slurs, Violence, Drug use, Death, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death of parent, and Grief

at the end of the book, there is the sinking of the titanic.

tahsintries's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, and Sexism

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Alcoholism

Minor: Child abuse

tak_everlasting's review

adventurous emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Racism, Death of parent, and Classism

Minor: Sexual assault, Abandonment, and Misogyny

quillify_'s review

adventurous challenging emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-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

4.0

A vision of the shrewd-eyed Reverend Prigg, thundering on about how God saves the righteous, inserts itself into my head. But if that’s truly the case, why are those people—most lowly immigrants just like us—screaming so loud, I swear even the stars pale at the cry?  

 IN TEARS RIGHT NOW OH MY GOD. I’ve always considered Titanic to be one of the biggest, most heartbreaking tragedies of the real world, and the fact that so many people died to favour the rich boils my blood. So to get to know that there were Chinese passengers onboard too, and that their stories were completely erased due to typical white arrogance and racism was another big blow to my heart. I am so glad this book exists as one  answer to that erasure of history.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Bullying, Death of parent, Grief, Blood, Alcoholism, and Sexual harassment

beautifulpaxielreads's review against another edition

emotional informative sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Racial slurs, and Death of parent

Moderate: Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Xenophobia, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Addiction

Minor: Blood

Much of the events of this novel take place aboard the Titanic, and a good chunk of the novel deals with the events of its 1912 sinking, in which over 1500 people died due to drowning and hypothermia. Some anti-Asian (particularly Chinese and Japanese) racial abuse is directed towards the MC and the other Chinese people aboard the ship, and a major plot point deals with the Chinese Exclusion Act, a racist policy banning Chinese people from entering the United States of America.