Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore

10 reviews

zombiezami's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Misogyny, Sexism, Child death, Grief, Racism, Xenophobia, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Blood, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Confinement, Antisemitism, Self harm, Transphobia, Classism, Hate crime, Homophobia, Pandemic/Epidemic, Bullying, Outing, Sexual content, Cursing, and Genocide

Minor: Sexual violence, Cultural appropriation, and Rape

tahsintries's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Homophobia and Transphobia

sarahaf712's review

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Deadnaming, Death, Homophobia, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Outing, Racism, Sexism, Cultural appropriation, Hate crime, Misogyny, and Transphobia

Minor: Biphobia, Classism, Colonisation, Dysphoria, Genocide, Acephobia/Arophobia, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, and Police brutality

nicolewhopickedthisbook's review

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

4.0

TW/CW: Forced outing, discrimination and slurs against Romani 

This was just so beautifully written even the author’s note brought tears to my eyes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Outing

ehmannky's review

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? Yes

4.5

Gorgeous. An absolutely gorgeous read, but then I expected nothing less from McLemore. Split between the 1518 and a modern day American town that has a hint of magic about it, this book delves deep into historic and cultural memory, the ways that racism and xenophobia are experienced and internalized by those who suffer from them, how to heal from these experiences by relating to others and finding community... There's just so much here. And it's all told in McLemore's gorgeous prose. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Racism, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Child death, and Grief

erinsbookshelves's review

dark emotional hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Transphobia, Death, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Antisemitism, Ableism, and Violence

mirichasha's review

dark hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.75

I will try to write more later but I loved this book. At first I didn't care so much about the plot, but loved the tone and the mood of the book. By the climax, though, I loved it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Xenophobia, Death, Transphobia, and Racism

Minor: Homophobia, Sexism, Rape, Racial slurs, Antisemitism, and Violence

harperhoney's review

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Body shaming, Death of parent, Death, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual content, Transphobia, Xenophobia, and Grief

Minor: Bullying, Deadnaming, and Hate crime

lettuce_read's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Transphobia and Homophobia

katesigrist's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• 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: Homophobia, Racism, Religious bigotry, and Transphobia

Moderate: Racial slurs

Minor: Antisemitism