Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson

42 reviews

longlost's review

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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

5.0

liz lighty my dearly beloved

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Homophobia, Bullying, Medical content, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Toxic friendship, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Grief, Vomit, and Hate crime

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Addiction

britt_writerly's review against another edition

emotional funny 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? No

5.0

Amazing and refreshingly believable.
I love Liz. She is real and flawed and aware of her flaws and loves hard and forgives when she's ready but ultimately with grace. She's just a wonderful example of a teenager. She didn't run around doing stupid things because she's "young." She didn't have all the answers but that didn't unlock Pandora's box. 
Her friends and family were also amazing and flawed and each one of these characters was just so beautiful in their authenticity. Human experience. Human dignity. 10/10 recommend. The premise of this book is compelling and fun and it delivered on that promise for sure.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime and Homophobia

danileah07's review

funny 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Bullying, Homophobia, and Outing

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Grief, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Medical content and Vomit

beautifulpaxielreads's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Cursing, Grief, Hate crime, Toxic friendship, and Vomit

Minor: Alcohol

One of the main topics discussed in the book is sickle-cell disease, an inherited group of terminal blood disorders. The MC's brother inherited it from their mother, who died due to complications of sickle cell. There are several scenes towards the end of the novel where the brother is hospitalised due to acute chest syndrome.

toberomanced's review

emotional funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

It doesn’t take much for a book to make me cry, ESPECIALLY if it has strong sibling ties, but this one has be tearing up again and again and again. One of the best YA books I’ve ever read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, and Bullying

Moderate: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Vomit, Racism, Medical content, Death of parent, and Chronic illness

Minor: Car accident, Cursing, Grief, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexism, and Toxic friendship

nillech's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical content, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Terminal illness, and Vomit

anenbydragon's review against another edition

funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Hate crime, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, and Racism

booksandmo's review

hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Chronic illness, Biphobia, Bullying, Grief, Medical content, and Outing

hootreads's review

funny lighthearted 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: Hate crime

Moderate: Racism, Death of parent, and Medical content

Minor: Lesbophobia and Homophobia

courtneyfalling's review

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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

4.0

The opening half of this book was pretty slow, but by the end, I was so glad I had kept reading. Most of the ending chapters made me tear up... it was just really sweet and hopeful and made my heart happy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Racism, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Hate crime, Lesbophobia, and Outing

Minor: Car accident, Vomit, and Panic attacks/disorders