Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

Horse by Geraldine Brooks

24 reviews

alainab113's review

adventurous reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racism, Violence, Animal death, Racial slurs, and Slavery

mlander's review

adventurous dark emotional informative medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Animal death, Slavery, and Racial slurs

Minor: Murder

authemmie's review

emotional informative tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery and Racism

Moderate: Animal death, Murder, Animal cruelty, and Racial slurs

thebelovedreadingnook's review

challenging dark sad slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, and Racial slurs

ahorowitz25's review

informative

4.5

As a lifelong horse girl, I loved the way Brooks wrote about the horses and their people. I just couldn’t give the book five stars, however, because Jess and Theo’s relationship was just so awkward and totally unnecessary to the plot.

There was no reason it was necessary for Theo to be killed at the end, and it really distracted from Jarret and Lexington’s story — which is what I picked up the book for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Sexual violence, War, Racism, Trafficking, Racial slurs, Animal cruelty, Slavery, Death of parent, Violence, and Animal death

booksandbabble's review

emotional informative reflective 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Death, Blood, Slavery, Violence, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Death of parent, Animal death, and War

Minor: Sexual assault and Pandemic/Epidemic

menglert's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I usually love this kind of historical fiction/timeline switching/multiple POV parallelism, but this one didn't totally click for me. Some of the POV choices were a bit confusing, with some characters only having only one or two chapters. 

I think the core of this book was quite effective at examining themes of racism in America's past and present, so it could be worth the read for that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Slavery, War, Racism, Police brutality, Grief, and Hate crime

Moderate: Gun violence, Grief, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, Racial slurs, Slavery, War, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Blood

megan_martha_reads's review

challenging informative sad medium-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? It's complicated

4.0

Opened my eyes to horse racing and the role of enslaved people in building that industry in the US. Beautifully written but heavy. As someone who does not have any interest in horses or racing still was sucked in.

Spent a lot of time after googling equestrian art. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Racial slurs, and Slavery

Moderate: Animal cruelty

Minor: Animal death

melissabristol's review

emotional inspiring reflective medium-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? No

4.75

The only thing I thought was less than ideal was the ending.  Sending Jess back to Australia felt like a bit of a way to avoid harder questions about where her relationship with Theo was going and the interracial dating issues that would have been raised there.  I don't deny that, sadly, Theo getting shot was a realistic outcome (see, e.g., Ahmed Aubrey, RIP), but I felt that it was in some ways throwing a HUGE issue in without really having time to discuss it.  It could have been a book of its own.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Animal death, Death, Classism, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Animal cruelty, Racial slurs, Colonisation, Murder, and Blood

fkshg8465's review

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad slow-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? No

3.0

 Thought this won a Pulitzer, I didn’t love it. Maybe if I liked animals more, I might’ve loved it. Not sure. There were too many timelines and stories for me to track, and after all that saga, the way the story ended on the airplane sucked. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Police brutality, Slavery, Grief, Rape, War, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, and Animal death