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gremlinboogy's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Racism, Colonisation, and Addiction
Moderate: Drug abuse
laurenw's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Colonisation and Drug use
Moderate: Blood, Classism, Gun violence, Islamophobia, Abandonment, Addiction, and Alcohol
Minor: Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Terminal illness, and Xenophobia
aimnorth's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Moderate: Drug use, Drug abuse, Addiction, Colonisation, and Death of parent
A few main plot points are the death of the main character's mother before the events of the book and her father's struggle with an opium addiction.sarah984's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.0
The author also makes the baffling decision to include no major Native characters, have her POV characters participate (with a small amount of reluctance) in what is essentially cultural genocide, and make the voice of Hawaii a white boy whose father is in the Hawaiian League. The way the Hawaiian culture is written about in this book as this thing that will inevitably die was disappointing.
Graphic: Colonisation, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, and Racism
Moderate: Addiction, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Violence
Minor: Trafficking, Pregnancy, and Racial slurs