Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson

2 reviews

woolerys's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

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

3.25

Writing -  4/5 

Plot -  2/5 

Characters -  4/5 

World-building -  3/5 

Personal tastes -  3/5 

TOTAL: 3.2 

 

The pacing was uneven and the plot was occasionally hard to follow given the unsignaled time jumps; however, the novel’s voice and the characters were vibrant and engaging. Had it been a longer book, I would have been glad to hang out with the protagonist for as many more pages as Wilson wanted to write. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Violence, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexism and Xenophobia

gdpr_official's review against another edition

adventurous challenging sad fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

• an absolute banger
• intricately & lethally crafted; your heart will be dissected before you feel the blade
• very, very beautiful prose
• weird gods
• Afrofuturism
• sufficiently advanced tech indistinguishable from magic, or possibly the other way around
• cool linguistic worldbuilding centred on AAVE
• codeswitching used for multiple narrative functions, SO GOOD
• it's gay
• joyous & extremely sad
   

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Gore, Violence, Death, Racism, and Xenophobia