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readwithpassion's review
5.0
Coe Booth strikes again.
BRONXWOOD is a very engaging sequel to TYRELL. Tyrell navigates through incredibly difficult circumstances that no teen should face. He is more mature than his parents and is provided with little support from the adults in his life. My only complaint about this sequel is that Tyrell is a bit of a player, which conflicted with my previous perception of him. I think this is very realistic though--I think I placed him a bit too high on the pedestal.
Read this gritty, compelling novel. You won't regret it.
BRONXWOOD is a very engaging sequel to TYRELL. Tyrell navigates through incredibly difficult circumstances that no teen should face. He is more mature than his parents and is provided with little support from the adults in his life. My only complaint about this sequel is that Tyrell is a bit of a player, which conflicted with my previous perception of him. I think this is very realistic though--I think I placed him a bit too high on the pedestal.
Read this gritty, compelling novel. You won't regret it.
wen320's review against another edition
tense
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
5.0
kelleemoye's review
4.0
*Reread 11/27/15 I've read Tyrell now then reread Bronxwood after--makes it so much better! Though I enjoyed Bronxwood the first time, I loved it this time.
Originally read 5/26/12: I hadn't read the first Tyrell book, but it didn't matter. Tyrell is such a real character that even without the descriptive back story that is probably in the first book, I connected with him. He has had a rough life and all he wants is to be a man.
Coe Booth brilliantly captures the voice of a teenage boy growing up in the Bronx. Never does the dialect seem forced, it just flows as if Tyrell was telling you his story.
I truly hope that there is a third Tyrell book, because I really want to know what happens to him.
Originally read 5/26/12: I hadn't read the first Tyrell book, but it didn't matter. Tyrell is such a real character that even without the descriptive back story that is probably in the first book, I connected with him. He has had a rough life and all he wants is to be a man.
Coe Booth brilliantly captures the voice of a teenage boy growing up in the Bronx. Never does the dialect seem forced, it just flows as if Tyrell was telling you his story.
I truly hope that there is a third Tyrell book, because I really want to know what happens to him.
crystal_reading's review against another edition
4.0
This was another intense book. Tyrell is working so hard to be a man. He is up against difficult circumstances and he just keeps trying to do the best that he can to be a man he can respect. Booth made me really care about Tyrell ans his family. I am hoping for another book to hear more of his story.
lazygal's review against another edition
3.0
Ty's life is pretty complicated: his moms lost custody of Troy (his younger brother, now in the foster care system and with a family he doesn't like), his pops is in jail for the third time (but getting out soon), he lives with two drug dealers (even though he's not involved with that), and he's trying to get Adonna to go out with him... or is it really Jasmine he's interested in? Over the course of the summer of his 16th year, Ty will deal with all the above, not necessarily in the "happily ever after" sense (his decision making process isn't always the best).
Told in Ty's voice, this urban lit look at life in the Bronx (Bronxwood being one of the many projects in the borough) isn't as rough a read as some in that genre can be. There are times when you wonder why he is making the choices he's making, or what we're not hearing that led him to the point he's at, but overall it feels as though you're spying on his life.
ARC provided by publisher.
Told in Ty's voice, this urban lit look at life in the Bronx (Bronxwood being one of the many projects in the borough) isn't as rough a read as some in that genre can be. There are times when you wonder why he is making the choices he's making, or what we're not hearing that led him to the point he's at, but overall it feels as though you're spying on his life.
ARC provided by publisher.
psychoduckie's review against another edition
5.0
I LOVED this book. It has a lot of emotion since Tyrell's dad is out of jail and since Troy is gone. Tyrell is a man. But his dad can't understand that. Can't wait until the next one comes out! (if there is one)
renatasnacks's review against another edition
4.0
A good follow-up to Tyrell. I liked the complicated relationship between Tyrell and his father, and I couldn't look away from the trainwreck of his parents' reunion. I don't know if Booth has plans for a third book about Tyrell, but after (no spoiler) the ending of this one, I'd definitely read a third book about him.
heykellyjensen's review against another edition
4.0
4.5
Never read TYRELL and it didn't matter (it was a little slow at the front of the story, just picking up who the characters were, but that was so minor). This book was incredibly written, and Ty's got one of the best and most authentic voices I've read in a long time. A killer character with a heart of gold in a world that's anything but that.
Longer review to come.
Never read TYRELL and it didn't matter (it was a little slow at the front of the story, just picking up who the characters were, but that was so minor). This book was incredibly written, and Ty's got one of the best and most authentic voices I've read in a long time. A killer character with a heart of gold in a world that's anything but that.
Longer review to come.
trishabee2000's review against another edition
3.0
The strength of this book is also its weakness - the realist portrayal of the book's narrator Tyrell and his life. While Tyrell is facing many difficult decisions, he seems to be making too many of the wrong choices. While this a book my own students would read because they seem their own lives in it, that may be a reason for them not to read it. It does not show an alternative to the lives they are faced with, only more of the same, but maybe that changes in the rest of the series.