Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri

17 reviews

nairam1173's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Racism

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Xenophobia, and Bullying

jamiejanae_6's review

adventurous funny reflective sad fast-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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Xenophobia, Classism, Excrement, Racism, Abandonment, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Islamophobia, Physical abuse, Blood, and Bullying

mdwsn27's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Body shaming, Grief, Religious bigotry, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Abandonment, Blood, Classism, Drug abuse, Medical trauma, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, and Confinement

emilydrojas's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Xenophobia, Domestic abuse, and Animal death

sarah984's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful slow-paced

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

4.0

It took me a while at the beginning to figure out how to read this book, but once I got into it, I couldn't stop reading. At first it feels like a lot of vignettes only connected in that they're about the same person, but gradually it all comes together. The author's "kid" voice is really well-done.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Religious bigotry, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Xenophobia, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Racism, and Bullying

Minor: Torture, Confinement, Body shaming, Death, Kidnapping, Medical content, Pedophilia, War, and Drug use

kbucheit's review

challenging emotional medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Xenophobia

cassidy's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

4.5

This book was so 🥺🥺. I forget the word in Farsi that they used (edit: mazloom) but it really describes this book because I just want to give Daniel a hug. Anyways, I really felt like I was reading something that a 12 year old wrote and the wisdom/naïveté mix worked really well. Only reason it’s not a 5 is because it was just so sad at points and I guess I should’ve known this because it’s written in hindsight but I just wanted to know if he was gonna be okay 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Racism, Xenophobia, and Domestic abuse

rorythebean's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

shewhoknows10kthings's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Animal death

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexism, Xenophobia, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Racism, and Violence

ladygetslit's review

adventurous funny inspiring medium-paced

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

4.5

This memoir is a love letter to storytelling as an art form. Daniel Nayeri weaves in so many different emotions. I laughed, I cried, I learned, I yearned. There were so many “truth nuggets” that speak to being human as well. 

While I really enjoyed this, I did knock it 1/2 star in my rating for accessibility reasons. While this is marketed as middle grade, I think it would be a struggle for my 8th graders to follow the multiple plots that are all interconnected. My biggest gripe was a complete lack of chapters. I get why the author made this choice, but I personally feel it would be difficult for emerging readers to truly access and grasp the story without further support. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Blood, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Bullying and Xenophobia