275 reviews for:

The Shutouts

Gabrielle Korn

3.9 AVERAGE

bookcasey_champ's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

ybasalisk's review

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Sexism, Forced institutionalization

l_kenzi's review

3.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

bottleofink's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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There is a lot I loved about this book, but it's heavily overshadowed by using some graphic child sexual abuse against a minor character only to serve as a catalyst for a main character to leave a place. The perpetrator was never dealt with, the victims were mentioned in passing once afterwards but not present again. Very uncomfortable and weird to me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Abandonment

maritza_reads's review

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This felt more like checking off boxes for bipoc/queer characters, rather than being incorporated into the story. It was pedantic imo

cottagequeer's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful reflective 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

lilcrid's review

3.75

adventurous hopeful reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

olgabee's review

3.75

dark sad tense medium-paced

daralexandria's review

4.0

adventurous emotional hopeful 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: Complicated

beccamash's review

4.0

adventurous reflective 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: Complicated