Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn

6 reviews

yuyuv's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Lesbophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, Xenophobia, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicide attempt, Homophobia, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Bullying, Abortion, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, and Biphobia

zombiezami's review against another edition

emotional 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

5.0

Evocative, but haunting

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Sexual assault, Racism, Mental illness, Dysphoria, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Xenophobia, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Rape, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexism, Abandonment, Violence, and Misogyny

Moderate: Classism, Pregnancy, Cursing, Death, Outing, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Miscarriage

Minor: Gun violence, Police brutality, Colonisation, Vomit, Excrement, Abortion, Drug use, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Animal death

Colorism, Gentrification

emmalange102's review

challenging emotional sad medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and Rape

Moderate: Racism, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Sexual assault, Self harm, Rape, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, and Sexism

Minor: Abortion, Alcohol, Body shaming, Bullying, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, and Blood

sikah42's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-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

5.0

Being from the Caribbean, its refreshing to read a book with actual creole in it. It made me so excited to read those parts and made me feel closer to home. I felt seen.
Patsy is a very complicated woman having gone through so much trauma at such a young age, it’s understandable why she did the things she did.
She does make some dumb decisions, like when

She slept with Fiona’s boyfriend. He clearly had nothing to offer her besides a good time. If she really just wanted to sleep with the next available body, she should have just slept with the store owner. That guy would at least be beneficial to her struggle. Getting to this part almost made me drop the book entirely, but I wanted to know if she ever redeemed herself in Tru’s eyes./

. The ending was bittersweet but satisfying

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Hate crime, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Cultural appropriation

corinneb98's review

dark tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Abandonment, and Child abuse

Moderate: Homophobia and Miscarriage

Minor: Bullying

gagne's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism

Moderate: Cursing, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Religious bigotry, and Xenophobia

Minor: Suicide attempt, Sexual content, and Medical content