Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

28 reviews

barefootbetsy's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

4.5

Heavy but so well done. Wow. I expect I'll be thinking about this book for many years to come. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Death, Drug use, Blood, Cursing, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Addiction, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Infidelity

helliott166058's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Drug use

Cussing

staticsmouse's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

I wasn’t expecting this to be a comic book going in. My review is skewed because I started this book exhausted with the intent to finish and that’s what I did. I thought it was beautifully drawn and it was dark in message but it was a good story. I don’t like how it’s hard to figure out what page you are on because only half the pages have page numbers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Grief, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Drug use

Moderate: Gun violence, Death, Violence, Bullying, and Death of parent

Minor: Miscarriage

It is sad that his mom lost her addiction battle despite it starting when she was 13

vagorsol's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Abandonment

Minor: Bullying, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

Heated/vitriolic arguments between parental figures

sprucewillow's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Addiction

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Child abuse

Minor: Blood, Toxic relationship, Miscarriage, and Cursing

carolinemwatson's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Death, Addiction, and Drug abuse

becann's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

Heavy subject matter, but as a graphic novel it makes it easy to hear and process.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Alcoholism and Addiction

bookswithlauren's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

I never like to rate a personal story any less than five stars, everyone has a story and sharing that story for other people to relate to and to feel seen and understood, is incredible.

We follow Ja as he grows up within a dysfunctional but loving family, we follow him as he learns about his mothers drug addiction and tries to find his way in the world. I would have loved to have had a bit more detail and depth with the addiction but it is not my story to tell.

The artwork was great and I love how this graphic novel is one of the outcomes of his story. He followed his passion for art and drawing and now people all over the world can enjoy it too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Dementia, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Death, Abandonment, Addiction, and Cursing

booknerdsinmn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, and Alcoholism

julianh's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Drug abuse