Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

59 reviews

eve_kadou's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Slavery, Rape, Sexual assault, Racism, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, and Hate crime

travisppe's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Police brutality, Rape, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Drug use, Excrement, Hate crime, Infertility, Abandonment, Classism, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, Racism, Racial slurs, Trafficking, Addiction, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, War, Vomit, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

jordynkw's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Torture, Addiction, Drug use, Genocide, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Slavery, Violence, War, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Colonisation, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Rape, Hate crime, Pregnancy, and Racial slurs

butle2em's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Slavery, War, Addiction, Confinement, Body horror, Colonisation, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Racial slurs, Racism, and Hate crime

catwhisperer's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Physical abuse, Body shaming, Classism, Confinement, Grief, Excrement, Mental illness, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, War, Abandonment, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Racism, Violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Trafficking, Vomit, Xenophobia, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, and Sexual assault

waybeyondblue's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Racism, Trafficking, Death, Slavery, Colonisation, Torture, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Hate crime, Fire/Fire injury, War, Sexual content, Rape, Death of parent, Child abuse, and Pregnancy

Minor: Vomit

bashsbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-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

5.0

I don't have words for how incredible Homegoing is. The blurb cannot do justice to the journey it takes you on. Two Ghanaian half-sisters with divergent paths (one as a wife to a white colonizer and slaver, the other captured and sold into slavery) is only the beginning. This book follows Effia and Esi's lineage for seven generations, one line primarily in Ghana and one line primarily in the United States. It is a sizzering, raw, unflinchingly honest depiction of the experience and the legacy of the slave trade, in all its awful minutia; the creation and the evolution of the systems that still oppress black people. Truly, I've never seen a clearer depiction of generational trauma. It's incredible. That's all I can say. Cannot recommend enough.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Excrement, Child death, Colonisation, Confinement, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic friendship, Xenophobia, Vomit, and War

Moderate: Bullying, Homophobia, Suicide, Mental illness, and Ableism

Minor: Car accident and Medical content

c_serpent's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

This book was truly sensational.

Total score: 5/5 stars 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Colonisation, Classism, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Slavery, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death, Death of parent, Racial slurs, Racism, Confinement, War, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Pregnancy, and Trafficking

massivepizzacrust's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful sad fast-paced

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

4.75

To me, this is an almost perfect book. Haunting, ambitious, executed so well. It gave me nightmares and I couldn't stop reading it. If I had any complaint at all, it would be that I wanted most chapters to be a little longer because I wanted to know the characters better. Not necessarily longer in the timeline, just more of the characters' thoughts and feelings. 
I need to think about that ending more but I don't think that'll be a problem because this book will stay with me for a long time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Slavery, Addiction, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Excrement, Murder, Gore, Colonisation, Death, Drug use, and Fire/Fire injury

scifi_rat's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Death of parent, Grief, Racism, Slavery, Confinement, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Classism, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Vomit, Bullying, Child death, Drug use, Misogyny, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexism, Kidnapping, Blood, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

Minor: Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Infertility, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Suicide, Alcohol, Terminal illness, Torture, Homophobia, Rape, Abandonment, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, and Sexual content