Reviews tagging 'Deportation'

All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews

41 reviews

kate_ka's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Police brutality

Moderate: Deportation, Classism, and Alcoholism

Minor: Addiction

Poverty, hunger

epen's review

emotional 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? Yes

3.5

Prose style a bit choppy for me—it took me some time to get used to. A bit overwritten in that vein sometimes, but not too often; I think the author’s descriptive language and use of literary devices were mostly solid. Complex queer characters and good portrayals of friendship. Dialogue a little off sometimes. Totally gratuitous transphobia toward non-binary people by the protagonist that sort of improved by the end of the novel but not sufficiently for how explicit it initially was. 
 

Loved the portion of the book during which S was with her family in India, and particularly the portions about the plants that grew. Also encouraging for a story to have a coming out arc that didn’t end in disownment.

 
sometimes felt a little 2018 for a book written in 2022. 
Overall enjoyed and would recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Transphobia, and Deportation

Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Drug abuse, and Racism

sirthatsacowboy's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Deportation, Addiction, Grief, Sexual content, and Drug use

Moderate: Racism and Toxic relationship

Minor: Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Incest

bookswithisabel's review against another edition

• 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: Addiction, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Sexual content, Rape, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Deportation, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Racism, Mental illness, and Drug use

Minor: Vomit

enlamont's review

emotional slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Sexual assault, Drug use, Deportation, Toxic relationship, Racial slurs, Fatphobia, Racism, and Drug abuse

jdianm's review

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Racism, Grief, and Classism

Moderate: Abandonment, Deportation, Addiction, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Colonisation, and Sexual content

Minor: Eating disorder, Police brutality, and Homophobia

madanxiety's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective tense

• 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

4.0

I ended up liking this book more than I thought I would. I found the protagonist pretty unlikeable, or at least hard to empathize with, at times. But she def grows as a character and becomes more in tune with herself, which ultimately is I think what the book is about. I think a strength of this novel is that it feels both unique and realistic. It wasn't too predictable, but the characters and situations felt like ones that could really exist. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, and Racism

Moderate: Alcoholism and Drug abuse

Minor: Deportation

jessalex610's review

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.0

A very relatable story about a young freshly out of college person, trying to figure out her sexuality and her way in the world, while bringing in a refreshing immigrant perspective. I cried many times. I screamed many times. But mostly I just felt a very deep sense of relatability and comfort that I am not the only young person also struggling to figure out what their life is in their mid-20s.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Lesbophobia, Police brutality, Grief, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Deportation, Mental illness, and Addiction

Minor: Transphobia

alysereadsbooks's review

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad 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? Yes

4.5

I loved this book! Really captures the millennial landscape and explores so much in one book (immigration, trauma, LGBT relationships, depression). Deserves a reread! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deportation

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Rape, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

caseythereader's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Deportation, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Transphobia, Alcohol, and Sexual content

Minor: Terminal illness