Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely

10 reviews

zombiezami's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Hate crime, Police brutality, Classism, Blood, Medical content, Bullying, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, and Confinement

Moderate: Grief, Alcohol, Cursing, Drug use, and Death of parent

Minor: War and Gun violence

stephmcoakley's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Classism, Cursing, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Death, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Vomit, Blood, and Bullying

cait's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Bullying, Classism, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Death of parent, Mental illness, Child abuse, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Gaslighting, Grief, Police brutality, and Racism

Minor: Alcohol

maggy_rusche's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Physical abuse, Racism, Hate crime, and Injury/Injury detail

rachelbuckley's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Hate crime

vixenreader's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective 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

4.75

An important read about an ongoing subject. Plus the two narratives meld very well together. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Blood, and Racism

Moderate: Cursing, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Vomit, Alcohol, Racial slurs, and Drug use

This will hit hard for anyone who has experienced the loss of a friend or childhood guardian due to bigoted values.

streebela's review against another edition

dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Blood, Bullying, Grief, Hate crime, Police brutality, Toxic friendship, and Violence

t_alula_blue's review

challenging dark informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Police brutality, Racism, Racial slurs, and Violence

megmermaid's review

challenging inspiring medium-paced

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

4.0

I’m going to be perfectly honest here and say All American Boys is not the most well-written book you’ll ever find. However, it might be one of the most important and I encourage any parent of a middle-grader to encourage them to read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, and Police brutality

hawkrose18's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

CAWPILE: 9.71

I will give this a more comprehensible review for this upon returning to my home instead of trying to type a review up while at the gas station, but I throughly loved and enjoyed this book.

Alright, let's try this now that I am home. I LOVED listening to the story about Rashad and Quinn. This book is very easy to consume as an audiobook, and I would also recommend listening to it if you can because it made the message hit so much harder and feel so much more powerful because you got to listen to the characters anger and frustration. I loved listening to Quinn's dilemma because he was practically raised by the cop that beat Rashad and so he was conflicted on how he was supposed to feel and he grew throughout the book as he learned that was is right isn't always easy. This book filled my itch that I was feeling to reread <I>The Hate U Give</I> and I am so glad that I also go to read this book when I did. I know that there are so many people that can learn from this book or see themselves in this book and I think that it would also be a great book to teach in schools.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Violence, Racism, Hate crime, Grief, Cursing, and Blood