Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

37 reviews

zombiezami's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Confinement, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Torture, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Misogyny, Murder, Racism, Blood, Death, Gore, and Sexism

Moderate: Self harm, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Sexual harassment, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Cursing, Medical content, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Rape

Minor: Racial slurs and Religious bigotry

catdogcatdog's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense 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

5.0

“I thought of how the world can be anything, and how sad it is that it’s this. “

I read this book last month, and it’s on my mind often.  It’s particularly chilling how little had to be changed in the world this story takes place for televised prisoner death matches to feel so plausible. 

I was struck by how realistic the reactions of people with different relationships to the “sport” felt. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Domestic abuse, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, and Racism

jegan4's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense 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

4.5

Prison-industrial-complex meets the Hunger Games. If you can’t read violence than this definitely isn’t for you, however, the violence isn’t celebrated, but is used to demonstrate how close we are as a society to this dystopian story.  I personally liked the different POVs throughout, and actually wished there was more background on some of the characters (like Hendrix and Simon J. Craft). The footnotes did take me out of the story from time to time, but I also liked the extra information. I’m glad I read a physical copy and didn’t listen to an audio version, as I’m not sure I would have liked audio with the footnotes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Suicide, Racism, and Rape

Minor: Sexual harassment, Homophobia, and Sexual assault

latashman's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book was beautiful and brutal. I appreciated the different POVs from producers all the way to watchers of Chain Gang All Stars. Every POV was its own story that furthered the plot and made this a fast read. I appreciated the footnotes that gave real facts and statistics from the US carceral system and the citations in the back. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Racism, and Torture

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Suicide, Homophobia, Sexual violence, and Racial slurs

ukponge's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Violence, Racial slurs, Murder, Grief, Rape, Police brutality, Slavery, Domestic abuse, Transphobia, Suicide, Blood, Racism, Sexual harassment, Confinement, and Cursing

scrubreader's review

adventurous dark funny inspiring sad 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: Racism, Violence, Slavery, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Sexism and Sexual harassment

azureumbreon's review against another edition

challenging dark informative tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Blood, Violence, Death, Confinement, Torture, Police brutality, Classism, and Dementia

Moderate: Suicide, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Racism, Racial slurs, and Cancer

cehood's review

challenging dark informative sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Confinement, Torture, Violence, and Police brutality

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Racism, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Rape, and Suicide

pkprouvs's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual harassment, Police brutality, Violence, and Torture

julzbullard's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Torture

Moderate: Police brutality, Confinement, and Suicide

Minor: Sexual harassment, Racism, Rape, and Transphobia