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amylee_21's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Moderate: Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, and Death of parent
peachybee53's review against another edition
- 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
Our protagonist is endearing, honest, creative, intuitive, curious and determined. A dreamer whose ultimate goal is to find herself. She has the ability to see strangers in their quiet moments and wants nothing more than to be seen in return.
Some favourite quotes:
"The world turns for us all. One day you'll wake up and you'll realise the world has turned back upright for you and every bad thing you didn't deserve on the downside is made up for by every good thing rushing at you on the upside. You'll look up one day and see some face and suddenly it'll all make sense and all that bad downside stuff will seem entirely necessary. It'll just be ordinary life, it'll just be the normal turning of the world, but it'll feel miraculous to you. It'll feel engineered for you. It'll feel designed, drawn up by one of those crazy sketches you do. You'll call it fate. You'll say it was meant to be. And maybe it was. Because that's all the world was ever meant to do. Turn. And you were meant to turn with it."
"Lucky moon, she told herself, because every moon you see is lucky because you are still alive to see it."
"When you scream 'colourful' underwater it looks and sounds like you're screaming 'I love you."
"Being alive is a thing that you touch and see and feel. As real a thing as electricity. Do you feel that? It's The Alive."
Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, and Physical abuse
Minor: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Sexual assault, Torture, Kidnapping, Murder, and Sexual harassment
prime_minister_dinkleson's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Alcohol
cos_is_me's review
- 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
Graphic: Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, and Blood
Moderate: Domestic abuse and Sexual harassment
Minor: Homophobia
becandthebooks's review against another edition
3.0
I thought it was a great exploration into how less fortunate people live and why perhaps they ended up there. The book definitely didn’t shy away from some of the unpleasant details. There was a lot of sadness, heartache and anger for many different reasons within the homeless community Trent Dalton described and I can definitely see all of these points of view.
The main thing I didn’t gel with was the cliché fairytale elements: Prince Charming falls in love at first sight and sweeps unknown girl off her feet, said girl (who is, of course, a peasant girl) runs away, he then spends the rest of the story searching for her until he does, just upon chance, find her and once again sweeps her off her feet with a manly and heroic gesture. It was just so unrealistic. I loved the part about him sketching her and her not being as invisible as she thought, but the prince bit…. Taken too far for me.
I also found the very climactic Hollywood action movie conclusion to the drug lord situation very quixotic. I understand that stuff like this can happen, but once again I personally felt like it was taken way too far (that was a lot of deaths in a short period of time and all so different).
The essence of the story I enjoyed, but it could have been edited down into a more moving and realistic version.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, and Alcohol
kiri_crossland's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Physical abuse and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder
crystalmidnightmumslibrary's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Physical abuse, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, and Classism
erinn93's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Sexual harassment
emilysfullybooked's review
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Suicide, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
hellbent's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail