Reviews tagging 'Blood'

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely

13 reviews

adamderb's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Bullying

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

theemeraldgirl23's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-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

Rashad Butler and Quinn Collins are two young men, one black and one white, whose lives are forever changed by an act of extreme police brutality. Rashad wakes up in a hospital. Quinn saw how he got there. And so did the video camera that taped the cop beating Rashad senseless into the pavement. 

This book was truly amazing. It was incredibly eye-opening. Racism is a difficult topic to breach and this novel handled it beautifully. It was told in a dual first-person perspective from Quinn and Rashad. Quinn was written by Brendan and Rashad was written by Jason. So the writers wrote the characters of their own race. Personally, I liked Rashad more in this story because you truly get to read about the experience of being black in America, but I do really like Quinn's development by the end when he ends up deciding to join a protest after wearing a shirt that said, "I am marching, are you?" and going against his best friend who was the brother of the guy who beat up Rashad. This novel was really good and gave me at least a little bit of hope in humanity. I just loved its message and how it was conveyed. I think this changed my perspective on things and gave me a new understanding of the police system in America. And although it was written in 2015, it's themes are still very relevant today. I really recommend this novel to those who want to gain a new perspective and read about other races and cultures. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Blood, Police brutality, and 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

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

braun_jk28's review against another edition

challenging reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality and Racism

Minor: Blood

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

amndaj's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring 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? No

4.75

Fast but important read, reminiscent of The Hate You Give. Gives the reader a front row seat to some of the emotions and thoughts of a person subjected to racism and police violence as well as a person learning to see those problems.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, and Blood