Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid

8 reviews

madeleineelr's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Racism

Moderate: Hate crime, Violence, Drug use, and Gun violence

josie2k's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Racism, Sexual content, Cursing, Drug use, Gun violence, Alcohol, Confinement, Hate crime, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Toxic relationship

surprisebear's review

challenging reflective tense

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Addiction, Racism, Hate crime, Grief, Death of parent, Gun violence, and Xenophobia

atomicbritt's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

1.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Death of parent, and Racism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

criticalgayze's review

challenging hopeful 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

3.5

Like with Exit West, this book poses some interesting questions. These are two that really stuck with me:

• What gives a person their "self?"
• Does a change in one's "self," especially a drastic change, make them more aware of who they are or less aware?

While Hamid is amazing at positing deep moral questions, unlike with Exit West, I don't think this book goes quite far enough in addressing them or their repercussions in the specific world he's laid out here. It is sad to think, but I don't think the violence of the moment likely escalates to its logical end point, and I think the ledge is come down from rather too quickly and smoothly.

We also get a rather random glimpse at a possible aware external narrator who only presents themselves once, which makes it feel like an original structure idea that forgot to be fully excised from the final edit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, and Death of parent

Moderate: Grief, Hate crime, Gun violence, Murder, and Chronic illness

Minor: Addiction

thenonmouse's review

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death of parent, and Hate crime

Moderate: Gun violence

caterpillar's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

i really liked the premise of this book and the story as it played out! i didn’t love the style of writing (run-on sentences/stream of consciousness) because it made it hard for me to keep my attention on what i was reading. however, as the book progressed, i began to enjoy it more

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Drug abuse, Addiction, Violence, Racism, Suicide, Hate crime, and Death of parent

kristynpittman's review

challenging dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

 Featuring a Kafkaesque metamorphosis, white people around the world begin turning brown. Manifesting so many of the racist ideologies we’ve heard for years in a literal way. Instead of black and brown people slowing replacing whiteness, white people wake up to see brown faces looking back at them in the mirror. What that means for their own internalized and outward racism ends up being a deeply thought provoking book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Hate crime, and Racism