Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

Eternal by Lisa Scottoline

6 reviews

sydneylmeyer7's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Murder, War, and Deportation

Moderate: Child death

sineadburnett's review

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: War

read_fox's review

emotional 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: Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Violence, and Religious bigotry

dswilson85's review against another edition

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? Yes

4.25

This beautiful story of friends and romance amidst the dawn of Fascism in Italy was cruising to a 5.0 rating until the last ten percent of the book.  Without spoilers, the drama and action in those final pages ramped up to a wholly different and uncomfortably fast pace.  The magic of the first 90% was in the engaging trio of main characters, and the detailed description of life in 1940's Rome.  The somewhat leisurely pace of the book echoed Italian life as I know it, even today.  Following a somewhat Hollywood-movie action scene at that 90% mark, I lost all enthusiasm for the remaining pages.  It was as if the author felt the need to wrap up all the loose ends, when in fact the story could've been concluded by leaving much to the reader's imagination.  90%: 5.0.  The remainder: unnecessary.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Religious bigotry, and Murder

skey1952's review against another edition

emotional informative sad slow-paced

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

3.0

This book has a very good (if quite predictable) plot.  The 3 friends aspect seems more than a bit contrived.  The writing is not at a level above YA.  The characters are good, interesting, but need a bit more development in my opinion.  I really wanted to like it more, but I found too much of the story glossed over.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Death, Hate crime, and Religious bigotry

natalieba's review

adventurous challenging emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, and Death of parent