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All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson

48 reviews

dannothedino's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Homophobia, Incest, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Cursing, Racial slurs, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Cancer, Medical content, Outing, and Transphobia

Minor: Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, Slavery, and Police brutality

madisone's review

emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Deadnaming, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content, Alcohol, Drug use, Incest, and Sexual assault

strawberrytheauthor's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

I read this for a college course and it was so good. I don’t know if I personally would categorize it as YA because the sexual and violent scenes were quite graphic. I identified with the book which surprised me because I am a cisgendered white woman. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, Alcohol, Sexual content, Transphobia, Blood, Cursing, Deadnaming, Sexual assault, Death, Drug use, Grief, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Bullying, and Incest

Moderate: Gun violence, Medical trauma, and Medical content

Minor: Child death

traa's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Homophobia, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, Death, Death of parent, Cursing, Outing, Drug use, and Racism

Minor: Transphobia, Deadnaming, and Police brutality

momogajo's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Bullying, Racism, Homophobia, Violence, and Racial slurs

Minor: Outing, Domestic abuse, Terminal illness, Drug use, and Deadnaming

sara_b_reads's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Incest, Sexual content, Drug use, and Alcohol

dragon_s_hoard's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Incest, Outing, Cultural appropriation, Drug use, Terminal illness, Racism, Chronic illness, Slavery, Alcohol, Racial slurs, Bullying, and Grief

ankita1996's review

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Racial slurs

Moderate: Bullying, Grief, Death, and Sexual content

Minor: Alcohol, Homophobia, Chronic illness, Incest, Addiction, and Drug use

leweylibrary's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Such an important book, and it's an important book for YOUNG ADULTS. For some reason, my library, a college library, doesn't have it with all the rest of the YA books, and that really irks me. Yes, there are a few sexually explicit moments, but I really wish people would stop pretending like teenagers don't know about or aren't having sex or at least thinking about it. Like the author said, because he didn't know, didn't have the resources or support to find out, he took a lot of unnecessary and dangerous risks sexually, not to mention how much harder his teen years were not knowing this information. Information is power, especially in areas of sexual and gender identities, and that's the only reason this book has been banned and challenged so much. 

Anywho, this book was very explicitly written for young adults, and the writing style does reflect that. That is not to say that there aren't some really great and powerful moments prose-wise. It was also just a really enjoyable read. I'm glad a book club finally forced me to read it sooner than I might have otherwise. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Racism, Outing, Bullying, Sexual content, Homophobia, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Terminal illness and Cultural appropriation

Minor: Drug use

arrowsartsandbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Violence, Sexual assault, and Homophobia

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Slavery and Transphobia