Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

76 reviews

adearajean's review

dark emotional reflective sad fast-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Child death and Violence

te_ss_i's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Cultural appropriation, and Classism

bt_wannabe's review

emotional fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Beautiful, lyrical, and poignant. A minute that will stay with you forever.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Gun violence

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Child death

susaned's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Powerful novel in verse about gun violence. Will, a teen set on revenge after his brother's shooting death, gets on the elevator with a gun and has a ride down full of ghosts and smoke. You coming? Ends the book. So much death and tragedy in Will's life already.  Will he join the ghosts? Simply an amazing book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Violence, Grief, and Murder

jaz_gets_literary's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder

mamaofperfectpayton's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

hazeleyeddreamer's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Racism, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Classism

joshuahc's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Drug use and Alcohol

chaotic_abi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-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

5.0

 I had a lump in my throat for damn near the whole last half of the book, scared what Will would choose to do, and I'm happy if not a bit unsatisfied with the ending. As much as I would have liked a more firm resolution, I really like that it's left for the reader to question and reflect. I also like how on every floor the new person built upon the rest of their story to talk about the endless cycle of revenge and it really made for a complete story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Gun violence

Moderate: Child death and Death of parent

phdpickles's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad 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

4.75

I loved this book and I really like jason renalds books and this is probably my favorite!

The ending is very confusing but overall the book was an amazing read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Moderate: Child death