Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

Our Missing Hearts, by Celeste Ng

51 reviews

notablesoups's review against another edition

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

5.0

With three very highly rated books from me, I officially refer to Celeste Ng as a favorite author!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia and Racism

Moderate: Animal death and Animal cruelty

celestialg's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-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

3.5

Didn’t speak to me as much as her previous books, but still an important read. Explores the ideas of a dystopian future but also, the dystopian happenings of now and of the past. A must read for someone hoping to read more racially diverse stories. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Hate crime, and Abandonment

Minor: Colonisation, Sexual violence, Deportation, Genocide, and Gun violence

marigold82's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

I felt this book. It is a dystopia that feels like it could have been or could be. There is a lot of discussions this book could being out. Especially with how if you wait to act until it happens to you there will likely be no one to take a stand anymore.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault, Child abuse, Confinement, and Police brutality

jjyork's review

dark 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and Xenophobia

Minor: Violence

bambooboy's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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? N/A

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Classism, Racism, Grief, Xenophobia, Animal death, Hate crime, Violence, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Police brutality, Abandonment, Sexual assault, and Racial slurs

mhorns's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

4.5

Loved this book. Listened to the audiobook. Clearly influenced by The Handmaid's Tale, but with a different dystopian vibe.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Xenophobia

Moderate: Abandonment, Death of parent, and Police brutality

Minor: Bullying and Racial slurs

elinawise's review against another edition

reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Xenophobia, Death of parent, Death, Injury/injury detail, Violence, and Abandonment

Moderate: Sexual assault

lj03's review against another edition

reflective

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

5.0

Celeste Ng exquisitely crafts a horrifying authoritarian world which forces readers to hold a mirror to their own community and privilege – when do we decide we can no longer ignore the injustices around us? What does it look like when we are no longer complicit? Ng argues the importance of the singular person to impact communities and structural power. Told in heartbreaking prose through the eyes of a child and his mother, readers watch these “ripple effects” from the actions of individuals: Margaret, the librarians, and eventually Bird; all who are striving to preserve the memory of those the larger community has conveniently discarded. Our Missing Hearts reflects our world’s racism, xenophobia, and distrust, and imagines how these are dismantled through individual hope and action. 

Things I liked: prose, themes (memory, family, trust), world-building

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Racial slurs, Racism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Death of parent

forceable child relocation

msbarnesela's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

A dystopia that feels terrifyingly present and real. I could see the path between our current world and this kind of world. Although some of the characters were easy to criticize, I could also see myself doing the same as each of them in the same situation.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Xenophobia

Moderate: Abandonment, Grief, Bullying, Death of parent, and Hate crime

Minor: Police brutality, Animal death, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

lowie's review against another edition

emotional mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Hate crime, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Death