Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Cantoras, by Carolina De Robertis

5 reviews

arieloley's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring 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

3.0

This novel spoke about heartache in a way that I didn’t know was possible. De Robertis wove in history, love, growth, triumph, fear, and so much more to create a deep emotional tangle the conveyed the need for acceptance and love in our world. The book was slow paced and had a lot of context, which made me take longer with it, but highly worth the read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Colonisation, Classism, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Rape, Racism, Death, Mental illness, Suicide, Xenophobia, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Outing, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Miscarriage, Infertility, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, and Antisemitism

waterlilyreads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Rape and Racism

lynneliu's review

emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexism, Rape, Lesbophobia, and Infidelity

Moderate: Police brutality, Sexual harassment, and Torture

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Genocide, Medical trauma, and Racism

alexiswiththefreckles's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

This book held me and would not let go. I want to get a physical copy asap (listened on audiobook) so I can read it again and find all those sentences that felt more like lyrics to me.  It was stunning, hopeful, heartbreaking, joyous, all at once.  Following these queer women find themselves and lose themselves and struggle and succeed felt like an honor. I don't know if I have the right words, but I think this will be one of my top books of the year. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Homophobia, Forced institutionalization, and Police brutality

Moderate: Alcoholism, Racism, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

liketrees's review

adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

4.75

This book had been on my radar since it came out, but also... this was not at all what I thought it was going to be about? I don't know what I was confusing it with.

A lovely queer addition to one of my favourite genres, books about groups of friends and how they change over decades.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Forced institutionalization

Minor: Grief, Police brutality, Racism, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Torture

Life in a militarized state, generally; conversion therapy