250 pages · Released Dec 15, 2009 · Simon and Schuster
Content report card
Sloth parent’s guide: what’s inside
Medium confidence
LGBTQ+ themes
None · 0/5
What it offers
Educational value
A little · 1/5
A note for parents
Sloth is part of the 'Seven Deadly Sins' series that deals with grief and guilt following a fatal car accident. While the death itself is off-page, the emotional weight and characters' responses to trauma are significant. The book explores mature themes around coping mechanisms, including some substance use and sexual content, making it more appropriate for older teens who can process loss and moral complexity.
One of the seven is dead, and everyone's reeling: Adam's done. With love, with school...with everything. Done. Beth's doing her best to act "normal," but even Reed recognizes devastation, since all he does is fantasize about Kaia. Miranda's lost too. Did she ever really forgive Harper? Only Kane is actually doing somet...One of the seven is dead, and everyone's reeling: Adam's done. With love, with school...with everything. Done. Beth's doing her best to act "normal," but even Reed recognizes devastation, since all he does is fantasize about Kaia. Miranda's lost too. Did she ever really forgive Harper? Only Kane is actually doing something: uncovering how the crash happened -- and why. But there's no do-over with death. There's only moving on -- to the most unlikely places....
