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amelody's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Police brutality, Alcohol, and Classism
Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual content, Slavery, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail
keen's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Violence
Moderate: Incest, Rape, and Police brutality
Minor: Sexual assault, Slavery, and Medical content
waybeyondblue's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.25
Graphic: Ableism, Racism, Rape, Police brutality, and Murder
Moderate: Gun violence, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Blood
needlebrook's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
The beginning of the book is intriguing but can get to be a bit of a slog after the first handful of chapters(was considering abandoning this book during the dreamlike narration from Trueblood. Very glad I decided against it.)
But, after the narrator arrives in Harlem and starts to adapt to his surroundings, the book quickly picks up the pace and seemingly goes at break-neck pace for the rest of it.
All in all, I won't be forgetting this book very easily.
Graphic: Gun violence, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Hate crime and Slavery
Minor: Racial slurs and Classism
haileyeh's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Incest, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Medical trauma, and Murder
Moderate: Hate crime, Racial slurs, Rape, Blood, and Alcohol
Minor: Infertility, Infidelity, Slavery, and Fire/Fire injury
crackedcoffin's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism
Moderate: Incest, Rape, and Slavery
vaikeliblikas's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Incest, Racial slurs, Racism, and Police brutality
Moderate: Hate crime
Minor: Slavery
sherbertwells's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
“I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me” (3)
“I faced them knowing hat the madman in a foreign costume was real and yet unreal, knowing that he wanted my life, that he held me responsible for all the nights and days and all the suffering and for all that which I was incapable of controlling, and I no hero, but short and dark with only a certain eloquence and a bottomless capacity for being a fool to mark me from the rest; saw them, recognized them at last as those whom I had failed and of whom I was now, just now, a leader, through leading them, running ahead of them, only in the stripping away of my illusionment”
“Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?” (572)
P.S. Incidentally, this is the third in a trilogy of “favorite books where a character has a glass eye,” along with Fun Home by Alison Bechdel and A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. I don’t know why this is, but it sure is a great symbol!
Graphic: Incest, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual content, and Police brutality
Minor: Drug use, Genocide, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Slavery