Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang

20 reviews

daniellemjoyce's review against another edition

adventurous challenging sad fast-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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Cultural appropriation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Drug use, Eating disorder, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Murder and Pandemic/Epidemic

alleahwebb's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

scifi_rat's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

ivi_reads_books's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

The story is set in a dystopian world in which an environmental catastrophe darkened earth's sky resulting in chaos and lack of food. We follow a chef to a remote mountain top where an influential man built a restaurant serving fresh food grown on his lands. A luxury only few can afford.
The book is very sensual and pleasure focussed which stands in contrast to the dying world around them. 
The book was a little bit too dark and gross for me at times but that is to be expected from a dystopian book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Alcoholism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Violence, Car accident, Death of parent, and War

jordan21's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This book was absolutely seductive; the perfect mix of fantasy and reality. The writing felt muddy at times during scenes of tension, but was beautifully descriptive everywhere else. Zhang seamlessly weaves themes of race, poverty, environmentalism and Scientology with queerness, feminism and sexuality. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Eating disorder, Violence, and Classism

kaiyakaiyo's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

a bit literary for my personal tastes; i expected this to be stranger and more speculative than it was. i also don’t love time skips; the last 50 pages felt like watching a movie with the second speed of fast forward on. 

that being said, i liked this! at risk of sounding silly, i like books about girlfailure, bc lowkey i feel like im in a low point in life and like reading about other people waiting for their next upswing. the chef mc is at a really low point and only a brush with insane rich people can snap her out of it. also her emotional support cat is so real. 

im being goofy but truly i felt so much of her hopelessness, lack of luster, lack of drive. she let that dark cloud (literally and figuratively) push her into a place where her living was carved out solely at the expense of others, the exclusion of others, and became more miserable as a result. reconnecting with humanity both at a grand level and individually gave her what she needed, and sometimes that’s the exact push i need: to go outside and share an aisle with people at tj maxx. to go out for drinks when im tired. feeling less like an individual and more like a community, a true community, really does bring the color back into life, and that was beautifully rendered in this book. 

the descriptions of food are lovely, though if you are as uneducated as i am, have a dictionary out lol. the prose is crisp but not overly so, and the descriptions are sensory in just the right way for a book based on pleasure and joyfinding. thank you to my local bookstore for a quick 2nd read of the year

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Misogyny, Racism, and Vomit

rheagoveas's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Eating disorder, and Blood

Moderate: Mental illness and Violence

paulasnotsosecretdiary's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Violence

wynnebirchmaple's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

This short big runs deep and wide. It’s a lot of things… Dystopia, Socio-political commentary, Satire, Gastro Horror, Loss of a Mother story, and a cautionary tale regarding climate collapse, how we change food and food changes us and change is inevitable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Racism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

It’s not as bad as the content warnings might suggest but it tries to be for brief moments. Is this why Ron Charles hated this book? I enjoyed it

adam0k's review

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Gore, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Cultural appropriation and Classism

Minor: Rape