Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

21 reviews

cynthigarcia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Racism and Xenophobia

dianaschmidty's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug use, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Self harm

theworldof11's review against another edition

mysterious tense fast-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Addiction, Racism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Self harm

floraforlora's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

Very white

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Racism, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, and Body shaming

renellen_x's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Animal death, Death, and Xenophobia

anasc007's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Xenophobia

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

newtleg's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

3.25

i guessed the end pretty early on. i also find cadence kind of... irritating

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, and Medical content

inglebelle's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Drug use

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, and Medical content

jonsnowsmanbun's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.25

„ One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.“

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Xenophobia, Grief, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Dementia

Minor: Cancer

its_madi's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

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

1.0

Wow, that was… a lot of nothing. Like… so much nothing. Universe, when I said I wanted a short light read, I didn’t mean the epitome of “no thoughts head empty”.

First off, none of the characters have any charm or personality at all. They are from a rich family and they are done with their family's materialistic ways. That’s it. That is the extent of their personalities. Plus all of their interactions are just so weird? They say things like

”I’m going to ask you about the sexual intercourse later,” I warn her.”

and

“I have to act like everything’s okay until I can find a troll. Then I’ll kill him to death and get my normal feet back.”

They also used the word “suboptimal” a lot, and it was played off as an inside joke, but it was never really explained why? I think the author was trying to write some quirky dialogue, and it might have worked in another novel, but here it just fell on its face because I was already annoyed with its characters.

Also, unless I’m missing something, aren’t Gat and Johnny step brothers? And Cadence and Johnny are cousins? So that would make Gat and Cadence related right? 

😳. 🤮.

The plot is also really boring. The MC Cadence has amnesia, and she’s trying to figure out what happened in the summer that she was 15. But she does absolutely NOTHING to solve any of this. She even knows that something is up, because she remarks that people keep lying to her, but she doesn’t even try to investigate it? At all? All she does is walk around the island until she gets a memory, and it’s as boring as it sounds.

And the plot twist was, fine I guess? I will give it credit that I didn’t see it coming, and thinking back it was foreshadowed quite a bit (the mom telling Cadence to hang out with the Littles, having her eat with the Littles and not with the Liars. etc.), but I didn’t care enough about these characters to care that they died. I was more upset about the dogs.

Now this is probably one of my least hated 1 star books, because I didn’t actively hate anything (except for the GatXCadence relationship). But that’s just the problem. I didn’t hate anything because there was nothing there at all. This was just an empty book. If a short read and a rich family’s drama and an unreliable narrator sounds great to you, by all means take a look. But it just wasn’t for me.

1/5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism and Xenophobia