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- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Gore, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Car accident, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Drug use
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Blood, and Kidnapping
Did not finish book. Stopped at 21%.
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Pregnancy
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, and Colonisation
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Addiction, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Infidelity, Sexual content, Excrement, Antisemitism, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, and Classism
5.0
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, War, and Classism
4.0
- It’s surprisingly (not so surprisingly) hard to find an addiction and recovery memoir that isn’t written by a white person, and FIRST IN THE FAMILY gets into the many reasons why that is.
- Hoppe blends memoir with facts and figures about how addiction was treated in her family and among people of color more broadly; specifically, how BIPOC experiences are purposefully erased from the mainstream frameworks of recovery.
- Hoppe reads the audiobook, and is such an engrossing and emotive narrator.
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Racism, Rape, Alcohol, and Colonisation
Moderate: Child abuse