Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

Unwind by Neal Shusterman

14 reviews

scarlettskyes's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Slavery, Religious bigotry, and Abandonment

bookcaptivated's review against another edition

dark hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Death, Blood, Medical trauma, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Violence, Kidnapping, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Mass/school shootings, Abortion, and Pregnancy

exclipse's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

The characters are absolutely terrible- the main character is an edgy Gary Stu, and his female companion is a Mary Sue with no personality, the third protagonist, Lev, has a personality, I like bratty characters so I liked him at first…but his story painted religious people as evil, and there were no other religious characters to counteract this . Books can and should show the good and bad of groups, but only showing the bad, like Unwind does with religion comes off mean spirited. Almost the entire cast is white, except a very stereotypical southern black boy who is only in one or two chapters. A sexual assault almost happens <to the main characters girlfriend, and he doesn’t intervene to prove a point.> it all just left a bad taste in my mouth.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Murder

Minor: Sexual assault

alouette's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Medical content, and Car accident

Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, and Sexual assault

Minor: Religious bigotry and Abortion