Reviews tagging 'Racism'

North Woods by Daniel Mason

6 reviews

spadefootfrog's review

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Car accident, and Colonisation

Minor: Ableism, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Slavery, Terminal illness, and War

lorenag5's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Death, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Slavery, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

lilly_dav_reading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

3.5

The author said it himself-just out of context, “The book was massive and terrible and untethered, and as a reader who prided herself on not slinking before difficult texts, she found herself in awe at its sheer strangeness.”
{+} loved the concept, loved how the stories weeded together in the most delicious of ways, loved that the stories are filled with ghosts of their predecessors. 
{-} took me forever to finish because it felt very long winded at times.
But happy I stuck it out because it’s a beautiful tale of time, nature, and the humans who navigate time and nature.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Mental illness and Violence

Minor: Racism

mammut's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

dizzymisslizzy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Racism, Slavery, Car accident, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Homophobia and Suicide attempt

town_scar's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

Have we not all looked at houses all around the world and pondered what history the walls may tell? What the earth might know? 

This novel is a true masterpiece. A combination of prose and poetry that embodies naturalism and spiritualism at its core.

Perhaps my only gripe is that I wish there had been a greater focus on non-White individuals. The main owners of the house are all white (with a single brief exception) and while the original inhabitants of the land are acknowledged they are not given a voice. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Outing, and Colonisation

Moderate: Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, and Xenophobia

Minor: Cancer