Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

24 reviews

sprucewillow's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Addiction

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Child abuse

Minor: Blood, Toxic relationship, Miscarriage, and Cursing

carolinemwatson's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Death, Addiction, and Drug abuse

becann's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

Heavy subject matter, but as a graphic novel it makes it easy to hear and process.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Alcoholism and Addiction

bookswithlauren's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

I never like to rate a personal story any less than five stars, everyone has a story and sharing that story for other people to relate to and to feel seen and understood, is incredible.

We follow Ja as he grows up within a dysfunctional but loving family, we follow him as he learns about his mothers drug addiction and tries to find his way in the world. I would have loved to have had a bit more detail and depth with the addiction but it is not my story to tell.

The artwork was great and I love how this graphic novel is one of the outcomes of his story. He followed his passion for art and drawing and now people all over the world can enjoy it too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Dementia, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Death, Abandonment, Addiction, and Cursing

booknerdsinmn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, and Alcoholism

julianh's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Drug abuse

mandi4886's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, Bullying, Drug use, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Child abuse, Sexism, and Emotional abuse

aus10england's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.5

A wonderfully inspiring story about growing up with a less than normal childhood. The author tells the story about how addiction was apart of their family through illustrations that really set the tone for the whole book. I also found the pacing really well done. I feel like I know the author so much better, and am happy to have picked this up on a whim!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Drug abuse and Drug use

amesnotamy's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Addiction

broderick's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Grief, Cursing, Drug abuse, and Mental illness