Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

The Women by Kristin Hannah

11 reviews

wormgirl's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Addiction, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Vomit, Police brutality, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

dkamada's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring 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

5.0

TW: PTSD

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Colonisation, Dysphoria, and Classism

mbrogs2024's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Infertility, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, Car accident, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

acalimottt's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective tense fast-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical content, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail

brichambo's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Confinement, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Colonisation

ziggyamc's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective 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? Yes

4.0

Normally I’m not one for war stories, but I appreciated the character-driven nature of this book. I liked how thoughtfully it dove into the complexities of personal experience, trauma, and the nonlinear nature of healing over time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Vomit, and Pregnancy

abitterknitter's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-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

4.75

Vietnam was before my time. Whenever we go to Homes For Our Troops events, they ask veterans of different wars to stand and they apologize to the Vietnam vets for how the country treated them when they returned. I didn't have much understanding of that until now. Heartbreaking.

I expected SOMEONE to come back after they talked about how some who were shot down were POWs, not dead. I didnt expect to see Jamie again. That was a surprise. For a while, I thought the book was going to end with Frankie dying. Rye was a jerk. Frankie never did ask him about his divorce when he proposed. I'm glad Jamie came back and that the writer made their relationship possible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Classism

Minor: Cancer and Cursing

nehaanna's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

kshertz's review

dark emotional 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? No

5.0

Wow this book was incredible. Highlighting one woman’s journey through Vietnam as a nurse and coming back to the world where no one wants to acknowledge you. It was beautifully done and made me cry and gasp and giggle. It was such a good mix of history and fiction. Highly recommend 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

laurenalippincott's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring sad medium-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail