Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

416 reviews

maryellen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, and Cultural appropriation

Minor: Bullying and Rape

insideunder's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Grief, and Cultural appropriation

Moderate: Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Stalking, Toxic friendship, and Classism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Vomit, and War

michelle_adb's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, and War

sinamile's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Holy sh*t my dudes! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Stalking, Cultural appropriation, and Alcohol

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

dmteralie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.5

Ok this isn’t even a genre I typically like but this book was really good. Listened to the audiobook and the spiral of the main character was so well done. I feel like the author really captured the inner world of such a person so well. I loved/hated the ending. I get it but man it was not at all what I wanted to happen lol 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Racism, Violence, and Toxic friendship

kelisabeth's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

alegzac's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Racism, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Physical abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Stalking

Minor: Grief, Cultural appropriation, and Alcohol

deepalidesai's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

The ending felt a bit rushed and random, but overall I really enjoyed this book. I haven't read anything that exposes 'reverse-racism' the way this book does. This book gave me complex feelings about almost every character. June is a horrible person, and during the small parts when we actually saw some of her humanity, you'd feel for her a bit, before remembering that she's a raging racist narcissist.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Cultural appropriation, and Toxic friendship

ridern2002's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective tense medium-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, and Toxic friendship

kbifolck's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

2.5

This book made me so uncomfortable and I appreciate that the author wanted readers to feel that way. Between all the social media and general media vitriol mixed with June's lack of awareness or real thought put into her actions, I was seriously stressed out reading this! I can't articulate it but something was missing for me and I couldn't get totally into this...maybe some more depth to Athena or June. Some areas of their friendship were fleshed out later and I loved that but it was late and even then I wanted more depth there. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Cultural appropriation

Minor: Suicidal thoughts