Reviews tagging 'Cultural appropriation'

Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang

5 reviews

nanadalmatian's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Medical content, Abandonment, Animal death, Classism, Violence, Body horror, Pandemic/Epidemic, Animal cruelty, and Child death

Moderate: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Alcoholism

Minor: Body shaming, Dysphoria, Cultural appropriation, Confinement, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

daniellemjoyce's review against another edition

adventurous challenging sad fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Physical abuse, Animal cruelty, Racism, Sexual content, Cultural appropriation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Violence, Eating disorder, Grief, Drug use, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Fire/Fire injury, and Vomit

Minor: Murder and Pandemic/Epidemic

lorenag5's review

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective 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: Confinement, Deportation, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Cultural appropriation, Xenophobia, Slavery, Sexual content, Classism, and Fire/Fire injury

wynnebirchmaple's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

This short big runs deep and wide. It’s a lot of things… Dystopia, Socio-political commentary, Satire, Gastro Horror, Loss of a Mother story, and a cautionary tale regarding climate collapse, how we change food and food changes us and change is inevitable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Lesbophobia, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Fatphobia, Classism, Vomit, Sexual content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Confinement, Sexual violence, Racism, Emotional abuse, Cultural appropriation, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, Cannibalism, and Colonisation

It’s not as bad as the content warnings might suggest but it tries to be for brief moments. Is this why Ron Charles hated this book? I enjoyed it

adam0k's review

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Gore, Violence, Racism, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Classism and Cultural appropriation

Minor: Rape