Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

Les tentacules, by Rita Indiana

9 reviews

gotossmycausticsalad's review against another edition

challenging

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Quite wierd, very interesting. Thought the ending was excellent.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racial slurs and Homophobia

Couple of instances of the n-word and a character says faggot a lot, but nothing too graphic.

gmolina's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs

valpal77's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, Addiction, Drug abuse, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Murder, Racial slurs, Drug use, Homophobia, Misogyny, and Death

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Dysphoria

femmenova's review against another edition

challenging

• Loveable characters? No

For full disclosure: I DNF-ed it at 42 pages and I only got that far into the book because I was trying to make sense of what I was reading. There's just so much exposition dump and sexual and racial violence casually mentioned for the sake of.. shock? To show how post-apocalyptic the state of the world is? The writing is dense and convoluted for the sake of introducing many different stories to understand a character more but I don't see it. The book boasts that it is genre-bending but that phrase feels like a catch-all to pretend that this book was something more than what it was which was: clunky writing, bad pacing, the awkward transition between characters that I thought it was a collection of short stories instead, and bad character studies.

Between that and finding out that the author is a whole ass non-Black person, which immediately made me reading the work uncomfortable because of the casual N-word being thrown around and how every Black supporting person in the book is hated by the main character(s). 

Listen, I have read a lot of dark literary books that does not have a single redeeming character in them. Books like The Black Cathedral are of a similar tone to this one but the writing was far more simplistic and the millions of characters that were written were developed in a Show-Not-Dump way.

Not for me at all which sucks because I was excited to read this! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Homophobia, Addiction, Fatphobia, Sexual assault, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Murder, and Drug use

glassmoon's review against another edition

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual assault, and Racial slurs

horizonous's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racial slurs, Rape, and Transphobia

Moderate: Drug use, Homophobia, and Sexual content

Minor: Abortion, Child abuse, and Pedophilia

◦ Sexual content = Prostitution

raenyreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious medium-paced

• 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

4.5

This book is so weird but also super interesting! I liked how it all came together at the end and as a Marine biologist I enjoyed the marine elements!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Drug use, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, and Violence

whatadutchgirlreads's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape, Homophobia, and Racial slurs

briartherose's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

A short, sharp rush of a novel that gleefully defies categorisation. Somewhere between cyberpunk, sci-fi, magical realism and dystopia, although none of those labels really do the book justice

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Homophobia, Blood, Racial slurs, and Misogyny