Reviews tagging Blood

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, by Erika L. Sánchez

7 reviews

andreasofia09's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Grief, and Gun violence

Moderate: Rape, Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, and Homophobia

Minor: Abortion

annamorgan27's review

challenging dark emotional slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Mental illness, Animal death, Blood, Death, and Gun violence

Moderate: Self harm, Sexual assault, Car accident, Death, Deportation, Abortion, Child death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Drug use, Homophobia, Alcohol, Sexual violence, and Suicide attempt

frenchhornfrenchfries's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense 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

4.75

Very emotionally intense book, but I liked it a lot. I only partly struggled with the timeline as it was difficult for me to grasp in what time periods the chapters/ happenings were apart.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Alcoholism, Blood, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Death, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Pregnancy, Rape, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Body shaming, and Self harm

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective 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

4.5

This book hits very hard, and it feels very familiar for those of us who were born extremely sensitive and very emotional (and everyone feels like they need to remind us about it all the damn time). I felt a closeness to Julia, and I look forward to reading more from Ms. Sanchez.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Abortion, Alcohol, Blood, Rape, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Sexual violence, and Suicide attempt

readingjaunt's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

I feel like the book started off very strong for me, but then I started to lose interest towards the middle since the book was trying to do so many things at once. This book is advertised pretty heavily as a mystery, but there was a huge chunk of the book where the mystery went stagnant with no progress towards figuring it out, so it felt like it was on the back burner. I did like the narrator’s voice a lot, and I’m surprised she was able to keep a sense of humor with all of her trauma, but she felt very authentic. I loved when she would get angry and tear into people, basically harassing them for their behavior or appearance because I love a woman that doesn’t hold back in their insults. I really disliked the romance in this book because it felt so cheesy and naïve, although it could just be that I’m outgrowing YA romance (and straight romance). I honestly think the romance with Connor could be removed from the book and nothing would be lost, but I also just didn’t like him from the get-go, and I think she could do much better. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Homophobia, Physical abuse, and Racism

lucinotlucy's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Car accident, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Infidelity, Self harm, and Sexual violence

dolores_madil's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

 This novel has great representation for Mexican American people and is also just not one view point of Mexican Americans but also other viewpoints and touches on the immigration story as our main character is a first generation. There is also representation for LGBTQ+ which I am not the right person to review if it is a good representation but there is a character from that group as well. I would definitely give it a read if you have not and see an insight to a first generation Mexican American girl and how hard life can be. 
Check out my review and vlog I made about the book: https://youtu.be/MNm3N_CcoHk

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Body shaming, Death, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship