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The Poet X, by Elizabeth Acevedo

22 reviews

tinkithesquirelll's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

• 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? No

4.0

Stunning

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Body shaming, Cursing, Child abuse, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Grief, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Injury/injury detail, and Religious bigotry

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Death, Child abuse, Pedophilia, and Infertility

Minor: Drug use

Intergenerational trauma, forced marriage, peer pressure, gangs,

jbooak's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Misogyny, Bullying, Fatphobia, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Cursing

Moderate: Homophobia

_rowan_'s review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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: Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Bullying, Infidelity, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, and Child abuse

lilacwhisker's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.0

Since this is written in poetry, it’s a pretty quick read! It wasn’t exactly my kind of book, but I still enjoyed it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Homophobia, Sexual harassment, Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content

t_higgsreviews's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

5.0

5 Stars
CAWPILE = 9.04

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Classism, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/injury detail, Religious bigotry, Emotional abuse, and Homophobia

taylorsevalia's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Injury/injury detail, Dysphoria, Alcohol, Drug use, Death of parent, and Violence

classicpseudonym's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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

wow. solid 5 stars, and deservingly so. going into this book as a person who isn't big on poetry, i was hooked almost immediately. xiomara's poems depicted her emotions and thoughts in their rawest state, which, in my opinion, separated this book from many others depicting the ups and downs of teenage life. additionally, xiomara's interactions with ms. galiano were especially meaningful (xiomara's english assignments, the poetry club), even though they were much rarer than interactions between xiomara and other characters. maybe i just like seeing people besides a kid's family and friends actually caring about and looking out for a kid when they have no real obligation to. anyway, the character development of xiomara and xavier's father was also a little thing i appreciated. lastly, i loved that i felt like not everything was resolved at the end of the book, because real life is pretty messy. and often, tensions aren't always healed completely. but as a family and as individuals, the batista family grew. this book was done very well, and the themes of self-acceptance were incorporated perfectly and not overdone. there's a lot of other tidbits (and not so small bits) that i took away from this read (but i'll save you from reading any more, if anyone ever reads this), and i highly, highly, highly recommend it. 

as a side note: i finished 'the poet x' in two sittings. i have not finished a book in two sittings in at least four years. please read this book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content

Minor: Cursing

spaghettii's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

• 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

4.0

The way it's written as a poem was very relaxing 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Bullying, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Racism, Drug use, Sexual harassment, and Panic attacks/disorders

amanda_mh's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.25

 I really enjoyed this free verse novel , beautiful prose telling a story that I was heavily invested in 📖 🗣 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Emotional abuse

Minor: Homophobia