Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry

15 reviews

maddiearthur's review

funny lighthearted mysterious slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Cursing, Drug use, Eating disorder, Stalking, and Alcohol

Moderate: Fatphobia, Racism, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Murder and Pregnancy

faeriefangss's review

dark funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Animal death, Drug use, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Stalking

Minor: Vomit and Pregnancy

concertconfetti's review against another edition

dark funny inspiring medium-paced

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

4.5

Amazing. I rarely hear stories about high school that resonate with me and this certainly did. As one of the weird jocks - swimmers and the field hockey team are sisters in weird sports - this reminded me of what it felt like to be an awkward teen who's neurodivergent and queer but doesn't have the language yet. I wish I'd had teammates like the Danvers 89 field hockey team. It was sweet and harsh and difficult and full of hunger and love and community actualization. Knocked a half a point for occasional clunkiness of comparisons between 2019 and 1989.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Racism, and Stalking

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Gun violence

elderwoodreads's review

dark funny mysterious reflective slow-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

5.0

This is the most unique book I read this year, possibly ever. Bray's writing style was a little odd at first but once I was in I was in. Everything I have found listed as cons by other readers were pros to me. I loved the plural first person narration, the slow burn, and the overly verbose descriptions. Please give this one a try. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Infidelity, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug use, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Outing, Sexual harassment, and Classism

scifi_rat's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Blood, Vomit, Stalking, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Homophobia, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Terminal illness, Excrement, Vomit, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, and War

camieh's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious slow-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

2.5

This was very slow paced. Long extended paragraph of explanations happened frequently. It was funny and I finished it but it was just ok. Trigger warning- sexual relationships without explicit consent are included. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, and Stalking

annablume's review

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious relaxing slow-paced

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

4.0

I really enjoyed this but there are a couple of things i don't like: I wish the main characters got like... equal page time. With some of them I didn't get to spend enough time to really get to know them. I was a little disappointed by the ending

the time jump.. i wish i could have been there at the final game and I didn't really care for the all grown up versions of the team.

I did not enjoy the adult-minor-relationship and the commentary on that... left a sour taste in my mouth that i'm still sitting with, even more so when paired with that one little comment on sexual abuse ...
i really liked the story and the writing style so it still gets a (maybe spineless on my part idk) high rating

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, and Alcohol

Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, and Sexual assault

Minor: Eating disorder, Infidelity, Rape, Vomit, Stalking, and Fire/Fire injury

fatherprozac's review against another edition

funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

2.75

Had to really force myself to finish this one as the writing style confused me a lot of the time. Despite only being 360 pages, this book feels really long for some reason (30+ page chapters?). The witchcraft was cool and cute in equal measure, but the sports talk was very boring for me personally. I liked several of the characters but since the focus kept changing between the whole team, I never felt like I got to really know any of them. Unfortunately, by the end I was also completely done with the romanticization of high school girls in sexual relationships with adult men and was ready to put the book down and never pick it up again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Bullying, Cursing, Infidelity, Racism, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Lesbophobia

githgorlfriend's review against another edition

funny inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

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

so much fun and i got so easily attached to every single character. i never ever say this but i want a tv adaptation. absolutely raving abt this book UNTIL the ending which was underwhelming. mel should have been a lesbian no matter how cliche it was i’ll die on this hill.  also i didn’t really like the time jump and anticlimax basically the last 35 pages felt weird to mebut up until then it’s genuinely so wonderful and i loved the ride. perfect perfect use of a character ensemble 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Homophobia, Racism, and Stalking

Minor: Sexual assault