Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

All This I Will Give to You by Dolores Redondo

5 reviews

asourceoffiction's review against another edition

emotional mysterious slow-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

2.0

I'm glad I finished this book. But I'm not sure if I actually enjoyed it. I was interested enough to want to know what happened, and the last third was a little more pacy and interesting. But it wasn't remotely memorable.

On paper, the mystery surrounding Alvaro's death is intriguing. And certainly the drama and emotion ramp up towards the end. But I never connected with the characters (even Manuel), and although I appreciated the rich back stories and side plots, I just never fully engaged with it.

The pace is really slow for most of the book, and I'm not sure if it wanted to market itself as a poetic portrayal of grief or a gripping murder mystery. Ultimately it feels like it was a little of both, or a lot of neither.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Miscarriage

celinececilia's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Homophobia, Rape, and Sexual assault

7838208's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

This book broke my heart multiple times. From the get go you know it won't be an easy read exactly, it's dealing with a lot of tough themes, but I still tore through it because I just couldn't put it down. I cried more than once reading this. The author has such a deeply empathetic way of writing these intensely flawed characters and their fraught relationships that leaves me in awe. Highly recommend but mind the content warnings if you are someone who struggles with darker material.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence

Minor: Cursing, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Murder

morebedsidebooks's review against another edition

slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Suicide, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, and Alcohol

Minor: Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Car accident, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Clergy abuse is a topic. There are also instances depicting sex work and mentions of blackmail.

wilderead's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? N/A

3.75

Tbh I know objectively I shouldn‘t like this book as much as I ended up enjoying. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Rape, and Grief