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The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel

6 reviews

creepycrawlybookworm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

littlelizzieborden's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Suicide, and Grief

Minor: Animal death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, and Death of parent

mstjohn813's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, and Murder

Moderate: Miscarriage

divafern's review against another edition

Absolutely maudlin. Without going too far into it, it tries to do too much. The writing is interesting in some places and yet liberally peppered with laughably bad metaphors and tired stereotypes. Just see the list of content warnings to get a feel for the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Alcohol

penelopeja's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, and Grief

Moderate: Homophobia, Physical abuse, and Murder

whatellisreadnext's review against another edition

sad slow-paced

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

2.0

This book was torture to read. This is what happens when an author tries to write about too many things at once. Every single message gets lost. There were pockets of good writing, but for the most part, the emotional exhaustion from reading this overshadowed everything.

My two main issues were:
1) the setting of 1984 to utilise HIV/Aids as a shocking plot point
2) the fact we are told to give empathy to the white supremacists that brutally murder a black child. Again this was utilised as a plot point to shock the reader. 

This book is written by a white woman. It came out 5 years ago, but if it was released now, it would be getting major backlash. It didn't sit right with me, and I recommend you don't read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, and Religious bigotry

Loss of a child