Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle

3 reviews

yodamordecai's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

1.5

Reading this book was painful. Nothung happened until the last 5 pages and then it was so poorly written I couldn’t figure out what was happening. The themes are straight up incoherent and the ending made no sense. I don’t know what the point of this book was.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia and Racism

Minor: Misogyny, Physical abuse, Violence, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

naiu_cs's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

1.0

Not once has a boom ever managed to ignite this rage in me, and that is not a compliment. 

I get that it is supposed to be socially critical and all that but if you want to accurately protray the suffering a minority actually has to go through in order to point out white privelege and prejudiced racist thinking, I don't think this is the way to go.
All the respect for social novels, I think Boyle went to far with this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Blood, Rape, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Sexism, and Violence

Minor: Child death

polliterature's review against another edition

adventurous reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Racial slurs, and Racism