Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

42 reviews

annick's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

Highly recommend. With patience you reveal the beauty in the lyrical heartbreak of this prose. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Police brutality, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual content and Suicidal thoughts

alisonfaith426's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

frankieclc's review against another edition

4.5

The audiobook for this (read by the author) is incredible, you get to appreciate the flow, sentence structure and prose so much more. Incredible actually

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Sexual content

ivulikkivulik's review against another edition

medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual content, and Violence

thecatconstellation's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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? It's complicated

4.75

A beautifully written reflection on love, trauma, and Blackness. Steeped in references to music and art and using language as a precise tool, this is definitely a must read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Police brutality, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug use, Mental illness, and Violence

Minor: Sexual content, Slavery, and Blood

shelfofunread's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Police brutality

Minor: Death, Drug use, Sexual content, and Alcohol

nialiversuch'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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, and Murder

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Gun violence and Sexual content

ktkeps's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Police brutality, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Sexual content

laurataylor's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Sexual content, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, and Alcohol

georgiesutton's review against another edition

4.0

I am not as keen on literary fiction or poetry and so perhaps didn’t appreciate this as much as others but I still thought this was really beautiful. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Racism, and Sexual content