Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

138 reviews

marissasa's review against another edition

emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

I listened to the audiobook while reading along with the physical book, and it was an amazing experience. I highly recommend the audio as the performances by Elizabeth Acevedo and Melania-Luisa Marte were so powerful and it really elevated the story to hear both sisters narrated with different voices. The story itself is full of grief and drama, which is highly relatable to anyone who has suffered a loss in their immediate family and/or discovered new truths about someone they thought they knew. The sisters both felt so real and I loved how complicated and messy their emotions and actions were, showing the reality of pain and loss and love especially when you are going through it as a teen girl. The writing was gorgeous and there were certain scenes like Carline giving birth, the sisters meeting for the first time, and the women saving Camino at the beach that left me breathless. There are a ton of beautiful words strung together in this book and it was such a treat to read/hear.

"How can you lose an entire person, only to gain a part of them back in someone entirely new?"

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Trafficking, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Cancer, and Cursing

kaylabooks's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

This book gutted me. It is incredibly emotional, heart-wrenching, and brimming with complex feelings. 

And the writing is absolutely beautiful. Told in verse, the story uses language so wonderfully while remaining seamless to read. 

I just. Thoroughly loved this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Infidelity, Stalking, and Pregnancy

Minor: Trafficking, Cancer, and Drug use

rebeccarudisill's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Infidelity

hayleythegoose's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Infidelity, Pregnancy, and Pedophilia

Minor: Vomit, Cancer, and Abandonment

roaringmamalion's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

A quick and engaging novel in verse about two teen girls who lose their father in a plane crash as he returns to the Dominican Republic for the summer - only…they don’t know that he’s father to both of them. Told from alternating perspectives the young women wrestle with grief, the pain of learning the truth, and how their dreams can possibly move forward now. The crash was real - shortly after 9/11 - but the mention and use of social media threw me for a loop, as that wasn’t in consistent use on 2001. Other than the anachronism, the book is lyrical and beautiful.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent and Infidelity

Minor: Sexual assault

mrsmonty503's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

4.5⭐️

This was a powerful and beautifully written story. 


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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death of parent, and Infidelity

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Racism, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, and Grief

Minor: Child death and Cancer

Plane crash, prostitution, poverty, illness, teen pregnancy, blackmail.

tinyjude's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

Inspired by true events, the story follows two sisters who live completely different lives and dont know of each other's existence until the death of their mutual father. It is a book about grief, anger, resentment, love, fear and dreams that deals with heavy topics. It also highlights the difference between the living conditions and prospects of both sisters (the privilege of one, the poverty of the other, the struggles of both, their vulnerability when it comes to disgusting men, but also their strength and need for each other).

It was beautiful. I was surprised by the way it was presented (in verse) and I loved every second of Camino explaining and being proud of their traditions, her Tía, etc 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Death of parent, and Stalking

Moderate: Xenophobia, Pregnancy, Classism, Trafficking, and Infidelity

kalzeb's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Grief, Death of parent, Rape, and Infidelity

Moderate: Stalking

Minor: Lesbophobia

eib_21's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Death of parent, Sexual assault, and Infidelity