Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

A Time to Kill by John Grisham

35 reviews

spudreads's review

dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Torture

jaidenmarie11's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

If this is the white liberal man’s idea of social justice I don’t want it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Injury/Injury detail

catiepursifull's review

challenging emotional funny inspiring tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This book was such an exciting but heart wrenching read. It’s so sad that this is how society is, but I appreciated the pragmatic approach Grisham took to describing the issues. In my opinion, Brigance was not too lovable of a character but Carl Lee was. He avoided falling into that white savior complex issue in my opinion through taking us through the story. My only issue was that it just rlly felt like Grisham wanted to say the n-word his whole life and just exploded it over every page. A little weird but I get that its Mississippi in the 50’s.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs

nowaybear's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.75

As a sad ending enjoyer, I've never wanted a happy ending this bad.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, and Racial slurs

juliabittorf's review

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Rape

hotdogbun's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, and Sexual assault

cmbrown4's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Alcoholism and Alcohol

anjulipatel's review

dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Kidnapping

jessicohen15's review against another edition

tense slow-paced

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

3.75

Does everyone complain that it takes too long to get to trial? Yes. Do I agree, yes. Did I enjoy this read - YES!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, and Murder

tracey1981's review against another edition

tense slow-paced

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

2.5

This book has not aged particularly well and is full of racial slurs and sexism and a lot of random drinking. It took until the 75% mark to get to the actual trial and my patience was very thin by then. For all of these reasons and more, I might not have finished it. But my mom and I were reading it aloud together and I really enjoyed that, as usual. So I would say 2.5 stars, at  best, for the book, 4 stars for the reading experience…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, and Alcohol