Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

407 reviews

sian_lucy's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-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

2.5

The narrative of this book is overly descriptive in a really repetitive fashion and doesn’t never goes anywhere that captures your attention. Besides a couple of quotes that resonate it’s forgetful. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Racism, and Xenophobia

ketsia_1412's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Police brutality

Moderate: Death and Grief

Minor: Sexual content and Alcohol

baielleebooks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

Really magnificent at the sentence level; lyrical, moving and referential. A sonorous love story coloured with vital renderings of trauma, masculinity, and tenderness, and a poignant exploration of what it means at the soul level to inhabit a Black body in a world made hostile and prejudiced. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Police brutality

Moderate: Death, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Alcohol

grxcequinn's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

3.0

Not a huge fan of the writing style, it was definitely very poetic, just too repetitive. Very like a Frank Ocean song (he even got a little reference!) 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Violence, and Police brutality

Minor: Death, Drug use, and Alcohol

midnightcomets's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

Stole my heart, honestly. Please read this, if you are into literary fiction. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Police brutality

Moderate: Sexual content and Car accident

Minor: Gun violence

mpeach's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Grief, and Classism

Moderate: Car accident and Alcohol

biobeetle's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual content and Terminal illness

matmatmatty's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

This is so beautifully written, I genuinely am in awe.

It is slightly difficult to explain what this story is about - this is the story of two people, black and living in London. 

This both is and isn't a love story, but i feel this has a lot to say about the black experience and does it so well. I found some of the writing difficult at points, but so much of it was so beautiful it flowed off the page, almost like poetry. I bet listening to the audiobook would be a great experience.

Would recommend this one for sure!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, and Police brutality

Moderate: Drug use, Mental illness, and Alcohol

laceyfearon's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Death and Grief

alda_a_leer's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective 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

5.0

Lange nicjy mehr ab dem ersten Wort mich auf jedes weitere gefreut. Es war richtig schön zu lesen, ohne genau zu wissen was kommt, starkes Interesse und Einfühlungsvermögen der Charaktere. Schöne Wortfindungen schöne Beziehung der Charaktere. Besondere Beschreibung der Nähe, der freundschaft, des vertrauens, der probleme. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Mental illness