Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

6 reviews

tomesandtea's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child death, Death, Hate crime, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Self harm, Suicide, and Pregnancy

chelle22's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexism, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, Medical content, Murder, Lesbophobia, and Dysphoria

skudiklier's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

I mostly liked this and thought it was well-done. There were some things I didn't like (like

changing Poppy's pronouns and name back at the drop of a hat without her even explicitly saying that

) but I like that at least it ended on a more nuanced note. A bunch of the reviews for this book were disappointing though, and I wish it were made more clear by the book that supporting your kid in being trans from a young age isn't the wrong move. Anyway. Overall I liked it, it was nice, it was well-written. Just not perfect. 

Oh also, if you're trans, a very specific part of this is really hard to read. Look at the spoiler in my content warnings for more detail. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Hate crime, Homophobia, Transphobia, Medical content, Murder, and Outing

Moderate: Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

A trans woman is murdered on page for being trans and it's just awful

theyellowbrickreader's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide

kimberlyallen011's review

challenging emotional inspiring sad medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Outing

Moderate: Gun violence, Rape, and Violence

Minor: Suicide

teegs's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime

Minor: Suicide and Transphobia