Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Love from A to Z by S.K. Ali

4 reviews

notsobinaryart's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Islamophobia, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Death of parent

Moderate: Car accident, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Animal cruelty, Genocide, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, and War

Additional content warning: heavy usage of Harry Potter references, especially Hogwarts Houses. Written in 2019, so before JK Rowling was out as a known TERF, but please know there are at least a dozen references to Harry Potter throughout the book

natalie_j's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness

Moderate: Death, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, and Death of parent

Minor: Violence

ohlovehandles's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring medium-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

2.75

The concept of the book is great, but I honestly took a long time to get through it. There were points where I loved the writing and enjoyed where it was going. Then other parts where it dragged on and made it difficult to enjoy. 

It's a beautiful love story and I'm glad that we're finally getting to a point where halal romance books could be a mainstream thing that a lot of Muslims could just walk in a bookstore and get. I still would've liked for more care to have gone into the structure and writing. 

Overall I think someone who's 13 would enjoy this a bit more and not necessarily be too critical on the writing. The thing is, it's a romance following characters who are 18+ and touching on a lot of dense and dark topics, it should have aimed to be written with the standard of readers within that age range and maturity in mind. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Hate crime, Racism, Islamophobia, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Cursing, Violence, and Cultural appropriation

Minor: Car accident

thepurplepixel's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Islamophobia

Minor: Cursing, Violence, and War

All of the cursing and islamophobia is within the context of illustrating the protagonist’s experience and her combatting that. All violence and war is portrayed in a negative light, and as something the protagonist wants to see rid from the world.