Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

34 reviews

mrsbennettreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Dementia, and Death of parent

Moderate: Religious bigotry

sarahaf712's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Racism, Dementia, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Child death, Chronic illness, Drug use, Homophobia, Racism, Sexism, Terminal illness, Grief, Abortion, and Death of parent

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

📚 Can a review just be entirely the 🤯 emoji? Asking for a friend.
📚 So many voices with so many conflicting feelings and dreams and obligations and small freedoms. There's not a dud in the group.
📚 This book prodded at all the ways the Christian church in America can push someone down, trying to force them into molds they don't fit. Some stories were all about that, and in some the church was just a shadow in the background, which I loved.
📚 Each story was in some way about boundaries - how much church to let in, who you have relationships with, when you allow someone in to see the messiness. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Cursing, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Dementia, Grief, and Religious bigotry

mamademics's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.0

I really liked the premise of this book, but it ended up letting me down in the end. Most of the stories included didn't seem like secrets of church women as there was no true connection to the church. They're just secret lives that women sometimes live when they're not accepted in mainstream society. This book definitely had potential to be more but the editor dropped the ball in pushing the author to make deeper connections to the church. Or even connecting the different cast of characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Religious bigotry

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Murder