Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

Outlawed by Anna North

76 reviews

aubreystrawberry's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Blood, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Blood, Medical content, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

kayschwe's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicide, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

lovejasmine's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

2.0

The biggest problem with this book is that it could have been so much better than it was. It could have been so inclusive and intersectional and diverse, and could have been a beautiful, in depth story of marginalised people coming together in a world that hates them.

Instead, we got the barest hint of that, with a very self centred, very white narrator that was, honestly, kind of boring.

The worst thing about this book was it wasn't bad. It just could have been incredible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Abortion, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Outing, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

emilyhunterr's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Sexism, Transphobia, Religious bigotry, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Racism, Blood, and Medical trauma

horizonous's review against another edition

Reading about misogyny through the window of "you're only a woman if you (can) give birth (to as many children as possible)" and everything regarding pregnancies, miscarriages, abortions in detail makes me deeply uncomfortable. Also, I think I had it with religious bigotry of this type for a while since I read "Under the Banner of Heaven" by Jon Krakauer.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility and Misogyny

Moderate: Child death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Child abuse, Death, Miscarriage, and Rape

themissyreads's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Torture, Blood, Religious bigotry, and Outing

Minor: Death, Miscarriage, Rape, and Sexual content

Additional TW (Moderate): genital mutilation— is tht not a tag bc body horror?(discussion/description); Character Death (not main character death); The ‘Moderate’ TWs are for like, things that Exist in the world but are (i think) handled very well. The framing is very clear for example: Racism. Racism exists and is an oppressive force to contend with but Our Characters recognize it as Bad and Wrong and won’t give the ‘race mixing’ conversation any credence. So these are topics touched on throughout.

raemcma's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Infertility and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Miscarriage, Racism, and Abortion

growplantsreadbooks's review against another edition

adventurous

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.75

I was very impressed by this! I was burned by the last "feminist western" I read, but this was great and I'm looking forward to recommending it to a few friends. 
The characters felt real, the plot was high-stakes, but grounded and there were some excellent pieces of writing throughout. 
Points off because

I didn't like that Lark, the bi eunuch king, was introduced just to die

and I'm not sure how much I'll think about this now that I'm done with it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Suicide attempt, and Murder

sbaryluk's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Sexism, Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Pandemic/Epidemic

linzomatic's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility and Misogyny

Moderate: Homophobia, Mental illness, and Religious bigotry