Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi

5 reviews

sky_maris's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Blood, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, and Fire/Fire injury

cammaleahh's review

challenging dark 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Racism, and Violence

Minor: Bullying and Cancer

maziodynes's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

I enjoyed this book more than I thought initially! it's not as scary as I expected, more unsettling, and I liked the overarching theme of breaking cycles of abuse and how they can manifest. I also loved how flawed and, well, messy the cast of characters was. they felt incredibly real.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Suicide, and Vomit

Minor: Racism and Stalking

kermit_the_wrong's review

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense slow-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: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, Torture, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Homophobia, Pedophilia, Racism, Vomit, Medical content, and Fire/Fire injury

callikat's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

3.5

The premise is interesting, I did think it dragged on quite a bit though. 70% of the book seems to set up the final confrontation, and it was just a lot of exposition. I liked the imagery, but it was hard to visualize. I think it'd be a better movie than a book, honestly. A lot of the haunting/grotesque imagery didn't really translate for me. One aspect I really enjoyed is the dialogue -- I think it was very natural, and felt like real conversations. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Child death

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Racism and Lesbophobia