Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater

13 reviews

mmalone's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Deadnaming, Hate crime, Homophobia, Transphobia, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

ppp's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Deadnaming, Hate crime, Forced institutionalization, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Homophobia and Medical content

bookishperseus's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Deadnaming, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Minor: Bullying

traceyanderson's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Confinement, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

mattyb's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Homophobia, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Deadnaming, Death, Transphobia, and Medical content

Minor: Suicide, Murder, and Toxic friendship

tiernanhunter's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Deadnaming, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Police brutality, Murder, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Antisemitism

mandi4886's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Sexism, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Blood, Grief, Murder, Outing, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Abandonment

morebedsidebooks's review against another edition

medium-paced

4.0

As time has passed The 57 Bus has won multiple awards and made many best books list. As well as the dubious attention of appearing frequently in book challenges.
 

See my blog for an in-depth review. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gun violence, Medical content, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Cursing, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Transphobia, Violence, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Bullying, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

This book also discusses the drug wars of the 1980s and 90s and mentions a parent incarcerated for drug offenses.

queergoth_reads's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

2.5

I ready liked some aspects of this book. I've not read a lot of young adult non-fiction and I found it very engaging. I think it tells a very important story about both sides of the crime and how it affected everyone involved and how unfair the US justice system is. 

However, I do think this could really use an update. There are various points where I found the language used outdated and uncomfortable. Also while focusing on an agender teen, it felt like this book fell into its own binary of man and woman, and other. There was very little space in this book for the gender spectrum. 

There were also a few descriptions of people that seemed unnecessary and made me feel kind of uncomfortable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Transphobia, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Ableism, Confinement, and Murder

Minor: Fatphobia and Rape

maple_dove's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative slow-paced

4.0

The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater is a book narrating the crime that happened between Richard (he/him), a boy, and Sasha (they/them), an agender teenager. It discusses the event with nuance, and asks questions, including  whether teenage violent offenders should be treated as adults.

To be honest, I can't really find the words to explain this book, nor what I liked or disliked about it. 😅

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Hate crime, Transphobia, Medical content, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Confinement

Misgendering (graphic)