Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Bad Girls Never Say Die by Jennifer Mathieu

9 reviews

onemamareads's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Read my review here: https://onemamassummer.weebly.com/book-reviews/bad-girls-never-say-die

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Sexism, Misogyny, Sexual violence, and Death

Moderate: Violence and Sexual content

Minor: Miscarriage

allisonsmith120's review

emotional sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Alcohol, Classism, Death, Grief, Sexism, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Child abuse, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Bullying, Police brutality, and Blood

bethany_grace's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

DIANE NO

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Car accident, Child death, Classism, Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Body shaming, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, and Rape

zoepagereader's review

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-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

An Outsiders retelling written by the author of Moxie? Yes please. Picking this up, I thought it would be a vague retell influence, just set in the same class battle. But no it was especially a carbon copy, just gender-flipped and dealing with other issues from the 60’s like sexism and racism. Did I spend the entire book guessing who the Johnny and the Daley were so I could prepare myself? Yes, yes I did. But dang, this was a great book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Grief, Rape, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Physical abuse, Racism, Blood, Miscarriage, Child abuse, Gore, and Police brutality

thewoodlandbookshelf's review

emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Sexism, Racism, Sexual assault, Violence, and Murder

leahjanespeare's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

This may be a gender-bend reimagining of The Outsiders set in the 60s, but the most telling aspect of the story is that much of it could remain true today. Double standards, murder in self-defense, women expected to 'act like a girl' and any form of emotional vulnerability is inherently at the fault and detriment of the girl in question. Now, if you're familiar with the original text, you know things only get worse. But along the way unlikely friendships blossom, and these relationships will change the lives of all of those involved. I liked how it twisted the original story into a tale that felt timeless and kept me really engaged the whole time.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, and Violence

Minor: Racism and Homophobia

mallory10100's review

dark emotional funny informative inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

the friendships in this book were amazing and heartwarming 💖

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, Violence, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Medical trauma, and Police brutality

Minor: Body shaming, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

i loved this book 🥺🥺i want more retelling of the outsiders!!!

thebooknook180's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

I really wanted this book to be better than it was, but ultimately the story as a whole was pretty disappointing. The last 30 pages were probably the most interesting, and the most well written. But otherwise the book and main character just fell flat. For Evie, it honestly felt like she was a side character for this entire story. I think a multi perspective book could’ve helped this book a lot. To really show what each of these girls from the “wrong side of the tracks” was going through. (Also the random lines about segregation felt incredibly out of place? Either further develop on that, or maybe don’t include it? As it was random and did not further or add to the story in anyway.) The mentor teacher and the “Bad Girls Never Say Die” lines were also underdeveloped and half baked. If you want (particularly the line) to really hit hard with your reader, it needs to be more important and weaved throughout the story. The weird and blatant foreshadowing was odd and not very well written or subtle at all. Overall this book moved way too slow for me, and took me way to long to get through. The writing was okay, and I understand what the author was trying to do. But overall I wanted this book to hit a lot harder than it did. Side Note- don’t market this book as an adventurous feminist read, if it’s not going to be adventurous. You are setting the reader up for disappointment.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Murder and Violence

caseythereader's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, Child death, Death, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Child abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Police brutality, and Racism