Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Gone by Michael Grant

16 reviews

jakubus's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

Doesn't hold back on the cruelty as well as the hope that arises from severely traumatic situations. Great building of story and characters, and gives each character some sense of redeemability, allowing the reader to, while they will certainly pick a side, at least understand the actions of different characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

gilmargirl's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Racism, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

booklov3r5019's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.75

Very very very very violent, a lot of death and a lot of times it is more graphic than not, but it's still an amazing book. I would reccommend this to anyone who likes to cry over books, characters who have some psychological issues, really anything violent.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Cursing, Cannibalism, and Death of parent

sylviixoxo's review

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Racism

sitrisummoned's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Eating disorder, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child death, Death, Torture, and Murder

Minor: Racism

autumngore's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

3.75

another reread, would've been a 4 but knocked off percentage for the rly hamfisted handling of religion -- that stuck out to me when compared to the nuanced treatment of p much every other theme in the book. but the book is not bad by any means and would've ateeee as a CW tv show in the 2010s. 

(tried hunger like a decade ago, couldn't get more than maybe 100 pages in? i don't remember much about that reading except that the book didn't intrigue me the way vol 1. did, even through its slow/rough parts. i don't feel compelled to give it another chance the way im intending to do with the wrinkle in time books)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, and Racism

slatattack's review against another edition

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

1.5

The plot of this book makes little sense and falls apart in order to write more books. The blinking out lord doesn’t work and just seems to be written in in order to keep Sam and Caine in the FAYZ. 

The explicit depictions of bulimia are unnecessary and not really plot relevant. As too is the ableism and racism. Little Pete didn’t have to be autistic there is no plot reason for it at all and it is written very poorly and very stereotypically and is a very ableist and infantilising portrayal. It seems as though some characters were written as ableist and racist so the author could get away with saying slurs/racist comments. And Astrids response to Pete being called the r-slur is disgusting and ableist as hell against high support needs autistics. 

I finished the book but only because I hate DNFing. The storyline was clunky and had many plot holes and the writing was poor. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Gore

Moderate: Ableism and Racism

123urmom's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Racism, Kidnapping, and Alcohol

i live in a small town where slurs are said all the time. i read the rword more times than i’ve heard it in my life???? holy shit????

villainessreads's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

2.5

My biggest gripe is how the characters of Edilio and Pete were handled. Quinn is openly and blatantly racist against Edilio and he's not really punished for it. He's still a "good guy" at the end. There's no narrative pushback for calling Edilio a slur like there is for Pete's slurs. I kept reading, but it never stopped being uncomfortable. I don't know how the author is normally a great ally and failed to see how horrible it would be for a PoC to read how Edilio was treated by the narrative. He's practically their housekeeper: cleans up their mess but never gets any narrative credit for his contributions. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

0pen_b00ks's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Ableism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism and Animal death