Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Paola Santiago and the River of Tears by Tehlor Kay Mejia

8 reviews

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Xenophobia, Racism, Blood, Confinement, and Child death

imstephtacular's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Violence, Racism, Body horror, Xenophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Trafficking, Gaslighting, War, Police brutality, Classism, Deportation, Sexism, and Death

bookswithcuppatea's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

4.75

Well developed world, believable main characters dealing with the sorts of issues young teens experience, as well as some extraordinary ones!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Racism

mangopassion555's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism

yarnbug's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad 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? N/A

4.0

I really enjoyed this book. Even ignoring that the book is published under Disney Hyperion and endorsed by Rick Riordan . . . I would describe this book as "Percy Jackson-esque". Honestly the whole middle grade kids embarking on a magical journey and dealing with mythical creatures from their culture that they may or may not believe in is a great plot hook. I'm excited for more authors to get in on this and represent more cultures. Plus it's a fun, no pressure way of learning mythology and folktales about other cultures. And by no means am I insinuated that Mejia is just borrowing Riordan's ideas. This book was entirely her own creation. I did not feel like I was reading Riordan's writing. Just that it went along with some of his themes/tropes.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Racism, Kidnapping, Gore, Bullying, and Child death

puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Child death, Grief, Kidnapping, and Blood

Moderate: Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racism, and Violence

booksthatburn's review against another edition

I wasn't liking it much and then I got to the bit with the former classmate and I got really frustrated so I stopped. I didn't like the combination of how long it took for the main character to get what was going on, plus how little the people with actual answers were willing to tell her. I don't know whether I would have liked this as a kid or not, but it's definitely not for me now.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Kidnapping

Minor: Ableism and Child death

CW for ableist language (unchallenged).

enakasone's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

• 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

Moderate: Child death, Racism, and Racial slurs