Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez

4 reviews

nvrrrdie's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense 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? Yes

4.0

This book was really far out of my comfort zone so I don't really know if I can give it a fair review.  I agree with other readers that people may want to review content warnings before reading at their own discretion.

This book had powerful character writing and was very emotional, which I appreciated. I think it was trying to do something really strong with the families depicted and I think it was successful for the most part. 

I don't live in Scarborough, but I do live in the GTA so some parts of this were close to home for me. However I didn't like how some characters felt like examples or lessons rather than fully written people. I felt like this was really strong with Viktor's character and it was just kind of reductive and disappointing. Those parts of the story felt like a cheap way of viewing others experiences as displayed for an outside observer and I don't feel like it was useful to the greater picture of the story either.

There are several issues I take with this book but the writing was really interesting and I think it was a good read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Police brutality, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Hate crime, Physical abuse, Bullying, Islamophobia, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Excrement, Classism, and Domestic abuse

krispy_reading's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Child abuse, Child death, Racism, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Alcoholism, Fatphobia, and Cursing

Minor: Excrement

kitheminges'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? Yes

5.0

This book was absolutely beautiful and insightful. I loved it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Islamophobia, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Addiction and Ableism

Minor: Child death, Death, Excrement, and Fire/Fire injury

ramblereader's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Bullying, and Body shaming

Moderate: Addiction, Violence, Sexual harassment, Medical trauma, Homophobia, Child death, Transphobia, Racism, Racial slurs, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Excrement, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, and Death