Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Bus 57: Eine wahre Geschichte by Dashka Slater

30 reviews

naiu_cs's review against another edition

emotional informative tense fast-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Death, Drug use, and Gun violence

sunnybugz's review against another edition

informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

Read this book for class- a very interesting memoir. As a genderqueer autistic person, I related to Sasha a lot. But as someone who grew up poor and in a rough neighbourhood, I emphasized deeply with Richard. I appreciate the in-depth discussion about the failures of the justice system- especially the juvenile justice system. I appreciate how Richard wasn't made out to be an extreme villain, but rather a teenager who did something terrible but is growing from it. The pacing wasn't my favourite, and the writing felt somewhat flat at times, but the story itself is very important.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Transphobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Gun violence, Racism, and Grief

nickthefailure's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Transphobia, Violence, Medical content, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

sssssoup's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Sexism, Transphobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical content, Grief, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Racial slurs, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

garynoplastie's review against another edition

informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Sexual assault and Pregnancy

skullotonin's review against another edition

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Blood, Police brutality, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Death, Self harm, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

ariam's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Homophobia, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism and Transphobia

lexa's review against another edition

emotional informative sad slow-paced

3.75

Interesting and eye-opening. A bit slow/drawn out for my preferences, but overall a well told story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Homophobia, Transphobia, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Sexual harassment

barnacleg00se's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective tense medium-paced

3.25

I was very interested in the story of this book, but I didn't like the deadnaming of two real trans people.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Hate crime, and Transphobia

Minor: Gun violence

santreads's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

fast compulsive and easy to read. not the sort of 'true crime' I thought it would be but definitely a good dive into classism, racism, the justice system and homophobic people (??). Sounds complicated but it's actually not. 

more thoughts on this coming soon. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, and Medical content

Moderate: Death and Gun violence