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brokehorrorfan · 3 months

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The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power will be published in hardcover, e-book, and audio book on July 16 via Tor Teen. The 320-page young adult horror anthology is edited by Terry J. Benton-Walker.

It features stories from 13 BIPOC authors: Adiba Jaigirdar, Alexis Henderson, Chloe Gong, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, H.E. Edgmon, Kalynn Bayron, Karen Strong, Kendare Blake, Lamar Giles, Mark Oshiro, Naseem Jamnia, Tiffany D. Jackson, and Terry J. Benton-Walker.

The White Guy Dies First includes 13 scary stories by all-star contributors, and this time... the white guy dies first. Killer clowns, a hungry hedge maze, and rich kids who got bored. Friendly cannibals, impossible slashers, and the dead who don’t stay dead. A museum curator who despises “diasporic inaccuracies.” A sweet girl and her diary of happy thoughts. An old house that just wants friends forever. These stories are filled with ancient terrors and modern villains, but go ahead, go into the basement, step onto the old plantation, and open the magician’s mystery box because this time, the white guy dies first.

Pre-order The White Guy Dies First.

#the white guy dies first #adiba jaigirdar #alexis henderson #chloe gong #h.e. edgmon #book #gift #tor books #faridah àbíké íyímídé #kalynn bayron #kendare blake #lamar giles #mark oshiro #naseem jamnia #tiffany d. jackson

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bruiselikeviolets · 3 months

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read in 2024: white smoke by tiffany d. jackson

The house stills. The house heard us.

#white smoke #tiffany d. jackson #litedit #yaedit #read 2024 #stuff #this SLAPPED

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slaughter-books · 3 months

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Day 3: JOMPBPC: Black Pride

❤️✊🏻🧡✊🏼💛✊🏽💚✊🏾💙✊🏿💜

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the-final-sentence · 17 days

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‘My name is Storm.’

Tiffany D. Jackson, from Storm: Dawn of a Goddess

#tiffany d. jackson #storm: Dawn of a goddess

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showmethesneer · 4 months

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Interesing how the first three books I've read this year all significantly feature child abuse 🙃

#monday's not coming #tiffany d. jackson #atonement #ian mcewan #all my rage #sabaa tahir #reading #child abuse tw #personal

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tallprettyaries · 1 year

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Me + my favorite books.☺️

#blackgirlswhoblog #pretty #black girls of tumblr #booklr #bookworm #black women #blackout #kennedy ryan #tiffany d. jackson #blackgirlbloggers #black girl magic #beauty #black art #me

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daphneblakess · 2 years

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books i read in 2022: the weight of blood by tiffany d. jackson

Your bloodline was marinated in rage. There will be pain in carrying this dark secret. A pain you must endure for others and for yourself. This sickly power you hold without hands will eventually burn until you can no longer hide it. You must learn to control it. Or it will control you.

#the weight of blood #tiffany d. jackson #carrie #storyseekers #booksociety #my edits #2022books

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simonespeaks · 7 months

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internalized anti-blackness is whooping kenny’s ass! what do you mean you would be betraying your 8.5x11 friends if you voted to integrate prom??? you’re admitting that your friends do treat you differently!

#i forgot to post this #i finished this book months ago lol #the weight of blood #tiffany d. jackson

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brightbeautifulthings · 1 year

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The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

"You, my child, were created in a hurricane, leaving destruction in your wake. You, as they say, are a storm with skin. Death and rebirth will follow you everywhere. How can one man who knows nothing of the weight of blood tame you?"

Year Read: 2022

Rating: 3/5

About: Raised by a reclusive, religious father, Maddy Washington has been the target of school bullies all her life, but the bullying reaches critical levels when it's revealed that she's biracial and encouraged to pass as white by her father. When a video of the bullying goes viral, it draws criticism to Springville, and the students decide to host their first integrated prom. However, not all the students are happy about the integration or the media attention, and they decide to teach Maddy a lesson at prom... which may be the last thing they ever do. Trigger warnings: character/child death, abusive households, blood/gore, fire, violence, severe injury, bullying, racism/blackface, strong religious themes.

Thoughts: Based on the description, maybe I should have been, but I wasn't prepared for this to be an almost exact retelling of Stephen King's Carrie, with the addition of Black characters and racial politics. I really love that aspect of it, and it brings a lot of depth and dimension to the story and the characters, as well as providing the kind of scathing social commentary that I love about the horror genre. Jackson does an excellent job at showing the ways that characters accused of racism will go to great lengths to deny it while simultaneously doubling down on their racist qualities, and it's understandably very difficult to like any of the white characters in this book. I very much enjoyed Maddy though, and there's a lot of interesting self-discovery in her character arc, along with a romance that's, y'know, fine. I'm usually not here for the romance.

Pacing-wise, the book is a problem though. There's a reason the original Carrie is under 300 pages, and even with the new thematic material, there's no reason this one should be over 400. There aren’t a lot of thrills or horror for most of that, and I'm confused about whether this is meant to be a horror novel at all. Jackson weirdly skips some of the ending scenes or tells them from odd perspectives, so that some of the horror is sidelined or absent altogether while other parts are in gruesome detail. The found footage format is a part of the original Carrie's structure as well, but in this case, I didn't feel the podcast episodes were adding a lot of new information. Instead, they just slow down the pace of an already slow book.

One of the major differences between The Weight of Blood and Carrie, and one of the places where I'm not quite sure the story works, is that there's a lot of ambiguity in King's novel about whether Carrie is a villain or a victim (both). There's no real deliberation in this book. It focuses fully on Maddy being a victim and sort of hand-waves the fact that she kills a lot of teenagers at the end. I don't dislike it; I'm actually not fond of the original Carrie ending anyway, and there's no doubt that Black characters deserve starring roles and happy endings. It's just an unusual take, given the overall body count.

#book review #the weight of blood #tiffany d. jackson #ya horror #horror fiction #3/5 #rating: 3/5 #2022

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Grown #OutOfContext

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reverie-quotes · 1 year

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You, my child, were created in a hurricane, leaving destruction in your wake. You, as they say, are a storm with skin. Death and rebirth will follow you everywhere. How can one man who knows nothing of the weight of blood tame you? For wherever you go, there you are.

— Tiffany D. Jackson, The Weight of Blood

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bookaddict24-7 · 2 years

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AUTHOR FEATURE:

﹒Tiffany D. Jackson﹒

Six Books Written By this Author:

Monday’s Not Coming

Allegedly

Grown

White Smoke

Let Me Hear A Rhyme

The Weight of Blood

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Happy reading!

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mschocolateworld · 2 years

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Niektóre historie lepiej opowiadać po ciemku. Nie tylko te przerażające, w których ktoś jest ścigany między drzewami. Nie tylko takie, w których grupa podejrzanych jest uwięziona w domu. Także historie miłosne nabierają blasku, gdy zgaśnie światło.

Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon - “Blackout. Gdy zgasną światła”

#dhonielle clayton #tiffany d. jackson #nic stone #angie thomas #ashley woodfolk #nicola yoon

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slaughter-books · 9 months

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Day 22: JOMPBPC: Colours

I love corresponding colours! 💛💜

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #colours #corresponding colours #the lesbiana's guide to catholic school #sonora reyes #the disasters #m.k. england #grown #tiffany d. jackson #the marvellers #dhonielle clayton #beautiful books #amazing authors #lgbt+#💛💜#i love books

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curlyhairedbibliophile · 2 years

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Cover Art | The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson ramps up the horror and tackles America’s history and legacy of racism in this suspenseful YA novel following a biracial teenager as her Georgia high school hosts its first integrated prom. When Springville residents—at least the ones still alive—are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation . . . Maddy did it. An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept secret: Maddy is biracial. She has been passing for white her entire life at the behest of her fanatical white father, Thomas Washington. After a viral bullying video pulls back the curtain on Springville High's racist roots, student leaders come up with a plan to change their image: host the school's first integrated prom as a show of unity. The popular white class president convinces her Black superstar quarterback boyfriend to ask Maddy to be his date, leaving Maddy wondering if it's possible to have a normal life. But some of her classmates aren't done with her just yet. And what they don't know is that Maddy still has another secret . . . one that will cost them all their lives.

Artwork by Jeff Manning

Release date | Sept 9, 2022 Goodreads

#the weight of blood #tiffany d. jackson #jeff manning #book cover art #book cover reveal #carrie #ya horror #black authors #bipoc authors #booklr #bookblr

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gn349 · 1 year

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MONDAY’S NOT COMING

[Book cover art for Monday's Not Coming]. (n.d.). Retrieved March 4, 2023, from https://www.google.com/?&bih=945&biw=1680&client=safari&hl=en

Monday Charles is missing and no one seems to know, or even care, where she is and why she hasn't shown up to school in months. This is not the case for her best friend Claudia Coleman, who is determined to find Monday. Claudia and Monday are inseparable, so when summer vacation ended and 8th grade was starting, Claudia was perplexed by Monday's absence. Time passed, and still nothing. Completely lost without her best friend, Claudia will do anything and everything possible to bring Monday home. This novel will keep you guessing, even after it's over! 5/5 stars, highly recommend for anyone who loves a great mystery novel that is hard to imagine the ending.

AWARDS:

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2023. New Talent Winner, 2019.

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Tiffany D. Jackson discusses the inspiration behind Monday’s Not Coming and the importance of the themes within her novel

#monday's not coming #tiffany d. jackson #triggering #child abuse #young adult mystery #young adult literature #Youtube

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