ajourneythroughpages's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Racism, and Miscarriage
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, and Stalking
Minor: Pregnancy, Police brutality, Suicide, Drug use, and Abandonment
books_for_the_bat's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Sexual harassment, Racism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Mental illness, Miscarriage, Domestic abuse, and Infidelity
Minor: Suicide
michellewatsonvideo's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Sexual content
Minor: Suicide
rebeccaxpaige's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Abortion, Racism, and Sexual violence
Moderate: Misogyny, Infertility, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Miscarriage, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Bullying, Classism, Colonisation, Gaslighting, Grief, and Suicide
caaaaaath's review against another edition
- 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
3.75
Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Racism, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Violence and Miscarriage
Minor: Suicide
shancowie's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Racism
Moderate: Miscarriage
Minor: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Police brutality, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
thevietvegan's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Spoiler
The beginning of this book was just self-sabotage after self-sabotage, with rough life decisions, irresponsibility, terrible communication and just a lot of emotional exhaustion. The first half of this book is ROUGH and pretty draining to read. I was just getting really frustrated at the main character, the crappy people around her, and some of the less supportive people in her life.HOWEVER, the last 30% of this book is the reason why this is a 3 star review and not a 1 star. I really appreciated that there wasn't the typical "find love" happy ending. Queenie made a lot of progress but is still on her road to healing and coping. Her friends were really nice and supportive, and hammered down that friends are there for both the good and the bad, and you don't need to be a perfect, happy-go-lucky person to be deserving of supportive friendship.
Queenie's grandparents were my favourite in this book, especially her grandad. They were such vibrant and real characters, I loved them so much.
I enjoyed Queenie's journey in this book, I liked the patois peppered through the book, I like that it touched on gentrification and the impact on minority communities. There was a lot of heavy stuff for a person to go through and it was hard to see her internalize and minimalize a lot of stuff that happened to her.
Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Racial slurs, Racism, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Miscarriage, Misogyny, Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Body shaming
Minor: Suicide
rosiereadsd9b7b's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Spoiler
But it does have an uplifting/hopeful endGraphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness
Moderate: Sexual violence
Minor: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Grief, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Sexism, and Suicide
berodatheelf's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Domestic abuse, Racism, Sexual content, and Sexual violence
Minor: Suicide