Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

5 reviews

gr3yyvi's review against another edition

4.25

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

Strong character development: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

k31r's review against another edition

5.0

emotional informative reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm

Minor: Violence, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Alcohol

wends_nblw's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

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Loved David, everyone else not so much. A good book for teens going through similar issues. Freshman me needed this, but I read it 5 years too late LOL. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Toxic friendship

Minor: Ableism, Racism, Self harm, Xenophobia

salvatorer2's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Infidelity, Racism, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Suicide attempt

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death

readsandrants's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I started off hating this book. And I do mean hating, I think at one point I even called the main character a passionless dull main character with questionable opinions. I was so ready to hate this book, not that I had wanted to, I had originally been excited for this book because someone who has very similar reading taste to mine absolutely raves about it and when I saw my teacher assigned it for summer reading I was thrilled. The first couple of chapters felt robotic, and the opening line was a bit of a cringe worthy sentence. But I actually grew to really love this book as it went on, though it was nothing I had thought it would be when I first heard about it, it was still a really great book nonetheless and I will be one of those annoying people who do nothing but rave and recommend this book to everyone they meet.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Body shaming, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Toxic friendship

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Cursing, Vomit, Abortion, Cultural appropriation