Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

Song of Silver, Flame Like Night by Amélie Wen Zhao

6 reviews

joygarcialim's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

2.0

I think the book has potential. That’s the disappointing part.

The characters fell very flat, the author spent most of the book info dumping that she didn’t pay much attention to the characters’ development. The romance didn’t even seem like a romance, it was more like how a kid might take two dolls and make them kiss but the backstory isn’t much except for the kid wanting to do it. The lack of emotions, chemistry or affections for the characters falling in love was very jarring.

Overall, it was very dry to read and at points I couldn’t distinguish when the author was being metaphorical or actually describing events in the plot. I’ll say that’s not necessarily the author’s fault, but there were definitely metaphors and descriptions that were just awful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Hate crime, Racism, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Xenophobia, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Minor: Alcohol

malisac16's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Blood, Police brutality, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Torture, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

intoxicatedflower's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Colonisation

Moderate: Torture and War

cozigremlin's review against another edition

• Pace = Slow 
• Characters = slow development and unlikable 
• Trauma-driven motivation from the characters gave me the ick. The female MC growth was not believable to me. The male MC to driven by his trauma. Overall (ironically so, I think) this book lacked the balance between hope and darkness. 
• I also was really turned off by the voice the narrator gave the female MC. 

IDK this book wasn't for me. Gave me weird vibes. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, and Violence

dmatson21's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring 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? Yes

3.0

It was an interesting story with Chinese mythology and while I like the characters, I didn’t like how the main character had a major personality switch halfway through. I understand why it happened, it doesn’t mean it liked it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, Death of parent, Colonisation, and War