Reviews tagging 'Racism'

The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks by Mackenzi Lee

7 reviews

katie0528's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

After the unexpected death of his mother, Adrian finds himself tracking down the source of a spyglass she had obsessed over before she died. The search leads him all over Europe and the African coast with two siblings he never knew he had, as he strugglings with crippling anxiety, intrustive thoughts, and obsessive behaviors, hoping finding answers will help him let his mother go and find peace in his own life. Personally, was my least favorite of the series, mainly because I wanted so much more of the older characters like Percy and Sim, but it is a satisfying conclusion to the series as a whole.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, and Mental illness

Moderate: Medical content, Addiction, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, and Misogyny

Minor: Self harm, Suicide, Slavery, Racism, and Alcoholism

Anxiety, OCD, intrusive thoughts, series finale

20sidedbi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad slow-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: Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Medical content, Blood, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Ableism, Addiction, and Racism

lucystolethesky's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Misogyny, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Death, Alcoholism, and Grief

Minor: Confinement, Xenophobia, Child abuse, Colonisation, Self harm, War, Torture, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Gun violence, Homophobia, Racism, Slavery, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Murder

harmonique's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious fast-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: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Racism

sunjaybooks's review

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

A fitting end to the Montague Siblings trilogy. It's a fast-paced, thrilling adventure tale set in the 19th century where the main character has anxiety. The ultimate conceit of the trilogy - that identities and experiences we talk about today (bisexuality, asexuality, anxiety) have always existed and that people have always found ways to understand their experiences. There's the typical strong character development, a mystery with light magical elements, and a setting that's full of thriving three dimensional characters navigating the complexities of the 19th century Mediterranean and North Atlantic worlds.

As a sequel, it stands on its own but also allows us to catch up with characters who have continued to live and develop over the past couple in-universe decades. Monty and Percy ended up in a different place in each book than they ended the book before, which is just one thing that makes this feel like a real three-dimensional universe.

This is the first of the trilogy that doesn't center on a queer character, but I forgive that because it ends with ~spoilers~

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Racism and Ableism

edie_reads's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful reflective 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Mental illness, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Sexual content, Sexism, Self harm, Racism, Physical abuse, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Colonisation

junovverse's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful 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: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death of parent, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Child abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, and Slavery

Set in 18th century Europe, so the sexism, homophobia, racism and shitty take on mental health are to be expected. No on page suicide attempt, someone else recounts theirs, years ago.