Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

23 reviews

lilabachere's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Child abuse, Racial slurs, Transphobia, and Rape

sophiet's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Rape, Death, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Transphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, and Gore

schildpad's review

dark tense slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Excrement, Torture, Violence, Blood, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Racism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Medical content, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, Death, Gaslighting, Addiction, Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, and Murder

valtbcht's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Violence, Torture, Sexual assault, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Murder, Homophobia, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Death, Cursing, Child abuse, Blood, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexism, Rape, Racial slurs, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Drug use, and Drug abuse

no_soy_sibila's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Police brutality, Murder, Violence, Misogyny, Homophobia, Sexual content, Racial slurs, Abortion, Addiction, Trafficking, Torture, Sexual violence, Sexism, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Rape

meganzc's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Dysphoria, Excrement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, Torture, Addiction, Racial slurs, Drug use, Suicide attempt, Trafficking, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Murder, Outing, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and Transphobia

If you have any triggers, you'll probably find them in this book.

odetojersey's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

SOOO GOOD. So geniunely frightening and grotesque in the best way. Proceed with caution though and look into content warnings, as I had to take multiple breaks throughout my reading. I felt like I needed to wash out my brain with soap

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Medical content, Miscarriage, Murder, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Rape, Racism, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Vomit

ktlimes's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

• 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

4.0

i am lowkey terrified of this book but in a good way 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gore, Incest, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

jckmd's review

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Even though back cover comparisons have a tendency to be less than apt, the mention of 2666 is completely warranted; Melchor's magnetic, ranting prose is somewhere between the bleak litany of "The Part About the Crimes," the fourth and longest book of Bolaño's opus, and Marquez's Autumn of the Patriarch (yes, I'm fully aware I need to read wayyy more Latinx women's lit). This is a filthy, stinking, sweaty, shit-stained putrescence of a book, an unrelentingly abrasive worming toward the repulsive rock bottom of humanity. I had to put it down more than a few times. Another literary kinship can be found in Hawkes' The Lime Twig in that a single simple crime permeates the reader's mind and body like a nightmare. Upsetting, disgusting, offensive... any and all adjectives fail. I'm still trying to scrub its residue from my skin.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Violence, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, Misogyny, and Hate crime

Moderate: Racial slurs

eleanorjmca's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

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

4.5

This is a savage, very bleak book about cycles of violence and pain, centred on one small community; ultimately it is about powerless people, extremely poor, controlled by drugs and gangs and money problems and superstitions and fear above all, who accrue tiny amounts of power to themselves by means of violence against other powerless people. Men, in particular, are the primary aggressors, with women the primary victims, but there is always a sense in which the greater aggressor is off screen, elsewhere, maybe at the Oil Company or even far away in another country. It is a loveless book, full of people desperately looking for affection and approval and vindication, as well as sexual pleasure, but unable to engage with anything in a non-violent way; the close relationship between love and violence runs through the whole book, culminating in the final scene when

the dead bodies receive the most genuinely affectionate words in the book from the gravedigger, having finally "escaped" from the world of suffering

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This book's best quality is the author's incredible use of language, and the translator's skill in rendering it. The dense text (no paragraph breaks) and eternal run on sentences were off-putting at first, but soon made the book difficult to put down! The technique of going on a journey in each chapter through a particular character's train of thought, memories etc is very compelling. I also loved how the picture of what had happened on the night of the crime, and what had caused it, gradually came into focus through the perspectives of different characters. I have only ust finished this book and I want to go back and read it again! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexism, Rape, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Pedophilia, Murder, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Car accident, and Child death

Moderate: Ableism, Excrement, Hate crime, Infidelity, Pregnancy, and Transphobia

Extremely lengthy and detailed descriptions of an adult/child sexual relationship; also bestiality, which there is no content warning option for.