Reviews tagging 'Murder'

On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

16 reviews

immaculori's review

challenging dark funny hopeful tense 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: Drug abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, and Death

Moderate: Racial slurs, Police brutality, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Misogyny

knit_the_resistance's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

I don't know that I would have found this book without the Seattle Public Library book bingo 2023 challenge for the category Hip Hop, but I'm so glad I did. I listened to it and the narrator is truly outstanding, world class, as good as the narrator for Harry Potter. I got so invested in the characters that by the last chapter I had to stop reading and ask someone if anything terrible was going to happen

it doesn't

Listen to this book and then come tell me how much you loved it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Abandonment, Addiction, Drug use, Grief, Murder, Racism, Death of parent, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Abandonment

theespressoedition's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Abandonment, Cursing, Grief, Hate crime, and Drug use

Moderate: Police brutality, Gun violence, Death of parent, Murder, Racism, Racial slurs, Death, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Homophobia

memoirsofabooklover's review against another edition

challenging hopeful inspiring reflective 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Drug use, Racism, and Police brutality

Minor: Murder and Gun violence

afion's review against another edition

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racism, and Classism

Moderate: Abandonment, Death of parent, Murder, Grief, and Sexism

Minor: Addiction

sshinesea's review

challenging emotional hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Gun violence, Drug abuse, and Murder

ekmook's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

• 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Drug abuse

Moderate: Abortion, Sexism, Racial slurs, Addiction, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Violence, Racism, Police brutality, Murder, Misogyny, Homophobia, Gun violence, and Grief

blenchbooks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Violence

Moderate: Drug abuse and Gun violence

Minor: Murder

grainjordan's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Murder, Racism, Drug abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Abandonment, Addiction, Drug use, and Police brutality

Minor: Infidelity and Homophobia

kitaliae's review

emotional hopeful 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

3.75

I like this book, and the previous The Hate U Give;  it's clear that Angie is going to be an important voice of the next generation as she continues to write emotional, touching stores for an audience that is largely ignored.  I love Bri, she's so fiery and spunky, and I do relate to get struggles to chase her dreams and not be a burden. In a lot of ways I wish this book was more about her and her struggles with identity. It feels like parts of the book were rushed or sections were just left out. Nothing feels awkward or bad, just feels like there is depth missing from sections that really should have had more. So much of rap and hip hop in general is about identity and authenticity, and this book had so many opportunities to go after that and passed on it. The social themes in this book are amazing, but at points it feels like those plot lines were favored over Bri's story. (also this really didn't need a second love interest - it happened so fast it feels kind of icky)

On a personal note, it was really frustrating to have so much of Bri's fire dismissed as ODD by her brother. ODD exists, but it's not what Bri is struggling with and I wish it hadn't been included. So many black teenage girls get that label from the school system unfairly and having her brother reinforce that was really aggravating. It might have been a joke or whatever, but it comes off poorly when Bri had been nothing more than a typical teenager in her "outbursts".

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Police brutality, and Racism

Moderate: Addiction, Grief, and Police brutality

Minor: Abandonment, Bullying, Homophobia, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, and Murder