Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

Chlorine Sky by Mahogany L. Browne

11 reviews

izzyreads13's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing 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? It's complicated

2.75

I’d like to start this out by saying that I am a poem lover, I love poems, I’ve read the poet X before and loved that book. However, something about this book didn’t do it for me.

I’m aware that this book is shorter and therefore would not go into detail about a lot of things but I feel like it could have benefited from being longer. I love reading books and feeling some form of connection with the character or at least a good understanding and while I totally understood where the mc was coming from, I didn’t really connect to her, so I didn’t really care. It was an easy read, hence why I finished it and I did want to see where the rest of the story went although I would’ve been fine not knowing.

A lot of things go by very quickly, and that’s really the part that bugged me. It felt like every so often we’d get a new character, something happens, they’re gone for a while, they come back, it’s Wtv and so on. 

I did have a few quotes in this book  that I did appreciate but I’m usually an avid tab user and this is definitely my least tabbed book. But all things said and done I did at least enjoy the writing style, I love how it read like a conversation and I enjoyed the way things were worded. I just didn’t particularly connect with anything or anyone hence my lack of interest  but it did have a good overall lesson so this is probably best for maybe like a middle school level class trying to go into poem analysis but that’s really it for me. 

I hope you found this review helpful, Happy reading!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Grief, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying and Cursing

michaelion's review

emotional 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

2.75

I bought this because I thought it was a poetry book. I was wrong. Anyway.

I really related to / understood the emotions of the character so it got some extra points. Other than that it's just okay.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Misogyny, Racism, Xenophobia, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

jaz_gets_literary's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

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

4.5

Beautiful novel in verse. Coming of age story. I love the character development of Sky coming into herself and learning to stand up for herself. The audio version of this book was great. The cover of this book is beautiful and I will be getting a physical copy to share this story with my teenage daughters.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Addiction

nicolescottwv's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Addiction and Drug abuse

diazahra_'s review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Abandonment

tahsintries's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Toxic friendship

Minor: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, and Sexism

sarah_thebooknerd's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful 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

My books in verse book binge finally ended and it ended on a great note. This book is about a young teen who comes to realize that her closest friend and sister may be toxic for her. 

The audiobook was great.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Sexual assault

dtierra's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-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? Yes

3.5

This is a really quick read! I read the whole thing in roughly an hour while taking a bath. I really wanted to like this book. I enjoyed the authors writing style and there’s some beautiful quotations in the book and water imagery. That said, the book is very fast paced and short. It goes by a bit too fast and it’s hard to connect with the characters before the book is truly over.

If I am not mistaken, there is a queer undertone to the storyline of the main character and her tumultuous friendship with her best friend/ex best friend. I would have really loved to see that explored more in depth as I found it incredibly intriguing

The prose in this book is great and I love the imagery. I wish it was longer so we could see more character development. The book is essentially short prose of 2-3 months in the aftermath of an ended friendship where the main character learns to not make herself small and to stand on her own. I would have loved to see what happened with some of the other characters and possibly explore some storylines. The book is written in a very slice of life manner. If that’s not your thing, you probably won’t enjoy this book but if it is, great book! I am looking forward to seeing what Browne releases in the future as her writing style is gorgeous. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

lolpink's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexism, and Sexual assault

kayladaila's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Abandonment and Sexual harassment