Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

333 reviews

themaciface's review against another edition

dark funny tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Read if you mean it when you say we need more fictional women who are just fucking evil.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Xenophobia, and Cultural appropriation

aislinghelen's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

4.5

I could not put this down. The only reason I marked it down was because I found some parts a bit slow and long. A few paragraphs felt like they were dragging on. Overall, it was a really interesting commentary and it became a "life imitates art” kind of thing. I hope one day this book won’t be relevant to the present.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Cultural appropriation, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Confinement, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Colonisation, and War

rrio's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Xenophobia

Minor: Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

dkamada's review against another edition

challenging dark funny informative mysterious reflective tense

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Deportation

harmondarling's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Xenophobia, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Rape, Islamophobia, and Sexual harassment

vitasf's review against another edition

adventurous funny tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Cultural appropriation

Moderate: Rape, Xenophobia, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

might_be_may's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative lighthearted mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Cultural appropriation

nenaveenstra's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

3.5

I'm not sure if I would've finished this book if I had read it physically; the narrator is super unlikable, the plot was quite predictable to me, and the pacing was a bit slow sometimes. But I did finish it, and it was an alright experience overall. I liked the commentary about racism and the book industry, but I think it could have been more subtle. 

A note on the translation: I was very put off sometimes by the decision to translate words to Dutch that we would normally use the English term for, and the inconsistency in which this was done. Sometimes terms were overly explained as well, and I'm not sure if this was the translator's choice, or the author's. 

A note on the narrator: overall, I didn't mind this narrator, but she did pronounce the "tle" in "Chipotle" as in "Aristotle" and I can't get over that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Cultural appropriation, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Cursing, Mental illness, and Medical content

Minor: Rape and Suicide

insideunder's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Grief, and Cultural appropriation

Moderate: Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Stalking, Toxic friendship, and Classism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Vomit, and War

bootrat's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

A really good book and such an interesting and important insight into the publishing world and how who you are impacts how you're treated. I really hated June, and had to keep reminding myself that the author is Chinese in order to not rage and hate the book itself because of that 😅 So well written, I definitely had emotional reactions listening to this!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Xenophobia, and Cultural appropriation

Moderate: Toxic friendship

Minor: Sexual assault