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gdavis254's review against another edition
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
4.0
A little heavy-handed but overall excellent and very memorable
Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Outing, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and War
afternoon_sunshowers's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
Finishing a book with tears in your eyes, you KNOW it was done well. The empathy doesn’t so much leap off the page as quietly underpinning the entire book.
Isaac’s coming of age story is both foreign and relatable. I grew up in a church nothing like his but some parts rang so true and I hadn’t thought of in more than a decade. And the beats of life in the early 2000s were dead on.
His struggles, his inner monologue conversations, REGRET, sorry…it was all just so real. So believable.
I’m so glad I’ve followed Jason for years because I never would have picked this book up but I’m so glad I did. A story of an evangelical upbringing and subsequent questioning of the faith could have been so heavy handed and full of caricatures, but this book shines by showing the humanity even in people you just fundamentally cannot understand in some circumstances but deeply relate to in others.
I can’t wait to reread and quite possibly annotate a book for the first time.
Isaac’s coming of age story is both foreign and relatable. I grew up in a church nothing like his but some parts rang so true and I hadn’t thought of in more than a decade. And the beats of life in the early 2000s were dead on.
His struggles, his inner monologue conversations, REGRET, sorry…it was all just so real. So believable.
I’m so glad I’ve followed Jason for years because I never would have picked this book up but I’m so glad I did. A story of an evangelical upbringing and subsequent questioning of the faith could have been so heavy handed and full of caricatures, but this book shines by showing the humanity even in people you just fundamentally cannot understand in some circumstances but deeply relate to in others.
I can’t wait to reread and quite possibly annotate a book for the first time.
Graphic: Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, and Religious bigotry
Moderate: Gun violence, Homophobia, and Death of parent
tmessersmith89's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
This book delivers a heap of nostalgia for anyone who grew up in or around church youth groups in the early 2000s. This story of a teenage boy wrestling with his faith while trying to reconcile the screams of eternal damnation with the fact that he just really wants to see some boobs, is a humorous and irreverent at times (and very reverent at others) look at what it means to look beyond our indoctrination and toward a deeper understanding of ourselves.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Car accident, and Death of parent
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