Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

50 reviews

metaphorsandmisc's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Hate crime, Racism, Xenophobia, Police brutality, and Murder

Moderate: Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Violence, Abandonment, and Pandemic/Epidemic

littleobsidian's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I appreciated the subject matter and world issues she explored in this book! But the writing style made me feel distant and numb to the characters, which made it hard to stomach such intense and heart-wrenching topics. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Xenophobia

Moderate: Sexual assault

pantslint's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

God, it's incredibly validating to read this book post-pandemic (or post-the-worst-of-the-pandemic, at least), after some of the most traumatic hate crimes towards the Asian-American community. And even now, with continued rise of rampant Sinophobia in the USA. I feel seen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Police brutality and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault

alimackenzie's review

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

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

3.25

3/3.5 stars. I may change this as I sit with it more, but right now this is how I’m feeling. It’s unfortunate as the subject matter is so important and timely, and I LOVED her other books, but this one just felt “meh” in the end for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, Xenophobia, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Sexual assault

basil_touche's review

dark emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

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

3.75

I wouldn't say this is ground breaking, but it feels very personal and raw; about injustice and xenophobia and individuals trying to make change in a world that sees them as the other. It's a narrative very much focused on love and grief, inspired by real world events (I appreciate that the author left an afterword referencing the books she used for research). 

Something about the pacing and some character writing didn't really work for me but it has left me thinking, and that is more than I can say about a lot of books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Violence and Police brutality

Minor: Sexual assault

karmapen's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Abandonment

clalaure's review

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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Kidnapping, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual assault and Death of parent

daydreamdarling's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Murder, and Classism

nerdy_reader_9571's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

While I absolutely adored this book, I will say that it is a very American story. The historical events mentioned and the trauma that those events and their aftermath caused characters are all very real and very specific to the American experience. Yes, the Crisis is fictional, but the rest of the story is very realistic. I’ve heard and read other reviews that characterize this book as dystopian, but I didn’t think the story as a whole was one that I would characterize as dystopian. It felt too close to America’s current and very recent realities to be characterized as such. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Forced institutionalization

angelkisses's review against another edition

inspiring reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment