Reviews tagging 'Grief'

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

8 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

olilivestoread's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense fast-paced

0.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Cursing, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, and Drug use

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

ecallahan's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Death of parent, Drug use, Abandonment, Classism, Grief, and Cursing

mandi4886's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, Bullying, Drug use, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Child abuse, Sexism, and Emotional abuse

broderick's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Grief, Cursing, Drug abuse, and Mental illness

temporarilyhuman's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

The author's note at the end is a must read. There more than anywhere else in the book we see the author's growth and understanding, especially in regards to his mother. 

The inclusion of photos of actual letter and drawings gives this book a little something extra that helps it hit home. I think it was a very good choice to include them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Abandonment, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Minor: Pregnancy, Violence, Dementia, Grief, Classism, Mental illness, Death of parent, Miscarriage, and Murder

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

emotional tense slow-paced

5.0

Jarrett shares his experiences growing up with his grandparents after his mom lost herself in drugs and prison. This memoir recountd his childhood and takes a hard look at the complex emotions that he faced. I listened to the audiobook for a while before I realized it was a graphic novel and then I started reading them side by side. The audio naration adds so much to this book, otherwise I might have given this 4 stars instead. It's also fun that he got his whole family (and several teachers) involved in the audiobook! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Drug abuse, Grief, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Miscarriage and Violence

Minor: Death of parent

familial abandonment, absent parent, parent in jail, trauma, emotionally distant caretakers, rejection of a teen who is pregnant, toxic parent-child relationships, a man abandoned a woman he got pregnant