Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

Maata jalkojen alle by Elizabeth Acevedo

204 reviews

taleofabibliophile's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Sexual assault, Infidelity, Cursing, Death, Pregnancy, and Stalking

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Cancer, and Terminal illness

Minor: Vomit

maresuju's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Stalking

Minor: Cancer, Abandonment, Trafficking, Pregnancy, and Infidelity

thebellsisatollin's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

An amazing book. I really enjoyed that this was in verse and the story is very outstanding! Cheers to Elizabeth Acevedo!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Cursing, and Stalking

Minor: Vomit

reemoony's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

4.0

i went into this book not believing i would like it. i know what i enjoy and i stick with it religiously. reading this felt like learning to love reading all over again. learning to love my home, my family, my lungs. Elizabeth Acevedo has a gorgeous way with words and i will be reading her other works.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Cancer, Abandonment, and Death of parent

karly_ackley's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Stalking, Grief, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Sexual assault

elisalasater's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Death, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual assault, Pregnancy, and Racism

Minor: Abandonment

carlyoc's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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

Inspired by the true event of a passenger plane travelling between New York City and the Dominican Republic that crash landed in 2001, killing everyone on board.
This book is told in verse from two fictional point of view characters, a teenage girl in DR and one in New York who both lost a father on that flight. Although Camino and Yahaira have had very different upbringings in different countries, their grief brings them together and they soon realize they have even more in common. 
Not my usual genre and definitely emotional, but glad I read it. I had no idea about this second-most deadly plane crash in American history that occurred just a few months after 9/11. And that is part of Acevedo's reason for writing about it. The event rocked the worlds of the Dominican community but hardly made a dent in the mainstream news cycle after initial concerns that it was another terrorist attack were debunked. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Grief, Infidelity, Stalking, Xenophobia, and Sexual assault

Features attempted sexual assault that is stopped in time and traumatic groping on public transit.

asianadrienne's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Stalking

Minor: Sexual assault

_ging's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

Graphic: Stalking, Infidelity, Abandonment, Grief, Racism, Sexual assault, Death of parent, and Death

livelaughlesbian99's review against another edition

emotional sad

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Stalking, Abandonment, and Death of parent