Reviews tagging Classism

Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro

5 reviews

kirareads02's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This was such a tense listen. You never knew what was going to happen or what secrets would be told. I really enjoyed how we found everything out slowly, and the narrator told us her story as though we lived in that world, like we knew what her school was. 

Really lovely, romantic and hopeful book. At the start I was hooked but couldn't understand reviews as to why it was classed as a dystopian novel so that was interesting for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Terminal illness, Death, Grief, Medical content, Infertility, and Sexual content

Minor: War, Classism, Cursing, Cancer, and Confinement

jennino's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical trauma, Murder, Violence, Trafficking, Slavery, Classism, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Torture

thesapphiccelticbookworm's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization and Medical content

Moderate: Confinement, Child abuse, and Classism

Minor: Suicide

nstew16's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

Dystopian meets Victorian Sentimentalism.

Other books Never Let Me Go reminded me of:
1. Klara and the Sun
2. Bleak House

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Content Warnings

Minor: Classism, Death, Grief, Medical content, Sexual content, and Racism

ozcrow's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Gaslighting, Infertility, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Classism

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Sexual content

The type of forced institutionalization is not what one would consider typical but it's difficult to explain what that content warning means without spoiling the whole thing so just tread cautiously.