Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson

10 reviews

achay91's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Drug use, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

Minor: Toxic relationship

greywolfheir's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Hate crime, Racism, Cursing, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Classism, Kidnapping, and Medical content

Minor: Confinement, Adult/minor relationship, and Bullying

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Confinement, Classism, Child death, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Fire/Fire injury, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Hate crime, Torture, Murder, Death, Vomit, Abandonment, Addiction, Stalking, Gun violence, Gore, Forced institutionalization, Drug use, Medical content, Drug abuse, Cursing, Police brutality, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

lovealwaysadi's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Drug use, Gore, Addiction, Colonisation, Cursing, Death, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Blood, Body horror, and Classism

Moderate: Hate crime, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, and Abandonment

Minor: Confinement, Alcohol, Excrement, Racism, and Grief

librarybookscene's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Hate crime, and Racism

ecn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

4.75

Maybe I’m a sucker for spooky/ghost stories, but this book was SO good. The twists were interesting and gave me what I wanted out of a story - to the point where I didn’t even mind the predictable parts

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Racism, Classism, Addiction, Cursing, Animal cruelty, Drug use, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, and Fire/Fire injury

lizgriffinwords's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

Fans of haunted houses or the show Euphoria NEED to pick up this book. This is one of those instances that proves a protagonist doesn’t need to be “relatable” for a book to be riveting and entertaining.

Marigold and her blended family move in to a renovated house in Cedarville, but everything from missing equipment to faulty lights and locked basement doors make this house anything but inviting. Marigold uses weed to mitigate her anxiety and OCD (which flared due to a bedbug incident at their previous house), and she discovers from people at school that the new town law enforcement cracks down harshly on dealers. She’s on the prowl for her next fix, but something in the house has it it for her.

Content notes: contains teens drinking/doing drugs, coarse language, jailed family members, race-based gerrymandering, and religious gaslighting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, and Drug use

cbbyles07's review against another edition

dark informative 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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Blood, Colonisation, Dysphoria, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

katefox's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

4.0

I don't usually like haunting stories but I picked this one up and I am so glad I did. The main character is flawed and I found myself not liking her as much as I felt I should, which upon reflection is a refreshing change. Jackson did a great job of slowly revealing the plots of the haunted house, Mari's past mistakes and trauma and the dark history of the old town our family has moved into. The book is layered, well written and some scenes creeped me hell out but it was well worth it to get to the end.............. Kinda hoping there will be another one????????

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Content Warnings

Minor: Drug use, Hate crime, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

readwithzoe_'s review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Kidnapping, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Bullying, Death of parent, and Death