Reviews tagging Child death

Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher

6 reviews

themadbloodstone's review against another edition

• Loveable characters? No

1.25

While this book can be entertaining for a YA novel, it is not a good representation of mental health. Suicide is not a form of revenge and should not be represented as such. Hannah is a child, yes, but putting her suicide on other children’s shoulders and manipulating their emotions is not depression, it’s cruelty.

Spoiler

Also, her exposing a girl’s sexual assault and hyping up the blame-game on an innocent boy just to go “Oh, yeah, you don’t belong on my suicide tapes but I still sort of blame you for not saving me even though I turned you away and did not express my feelings” is fucked up.

Would I reread this again? I don’t know. Most likely not, but Thirteen Reasons Why did have quite the chokehold in middle school and high school. Maybe I will revisit it in 5 years. The book does create good discussion. I’ll give it that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Sexual assault, Mental illness, and Child death

Moderate: Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Bullying

Minor: Car accident

_mya_'s review against another edition

dark reflective sad 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

4.0

Lots happened wasn't boring. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Rape, Death, Mental illness, and Child death

alyssaewilliams's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Child death, Rape, and Sexual violence

nickel14's review

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Child death, and Bullying

stefanmilano's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Alcohol, Body shaming, Car accident, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Minor: Blood, Injury/injury detail, Gaslighting, and Vomit

serenspace's review

dark emotional mysterious sad

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Suicide, and Bullying