Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Home Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo

11 reviews

somelesbianwriter's review against another edition

emotional mysterious 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

beautiful and aching with emotion, enhanced for me by the beautiful book club I was able to listen to and learn from about it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia and Abandonment

Moderate: Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, and Racism

Minor: Misogyny, Gun violence, Infidelity, Car accident, Death of parent, Police brutality, and Murder

sundayfever's review against another edition

reflective sad slow-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: Islamophobia, Bullying, Hate crime, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Police brutality

Minor: Infidelity and Car accident

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Islamophobia, Racism, Bullying, Hate crime, and Violence

Moderate: Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Death of parent, Medical content, Sexual harassment, Blood, Car accident, Classism, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

9/11 mention.

tinytrashqueen's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia, Racism, Bullying, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Police brutality, Gun violence, and Pregnancy

Minor: Sexual assault and Infidelity

nonbinarylibrarianwitch's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective slow-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: Death of parent, Bullying, and Islamophobia

Moderate: Grief, Hate crime, and Racism

Minor: Racial slurs, Car accident, and Infidelity

reviewsandreadathons's review against another edition

dark hopeful 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: Hate crime, Violence, Death of parent, Death, Gun violence, Islamophobia, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Racism

Moderate: Xenophobia

Minor: Infidelity and Adult/minor relationship

courtneyfalling's review against another edition

emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I wasn't sure how the highly introspective novel-in-verse form was going to work for me at first, especially since Nima starts as such a passive character. But I quickly became engrossed in how she understands the larger world around her and her loved ones, and the second half of the novel really picks up in how it uses this "alternate self" character and Nima's nostalgia for her parents' country. Lots of moments where I teared up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Bullying, Death of parent, Hate crime, Gun violence, Islamophobia, Police brutality, Racism, Sexual harassment, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Racial slurs

Minor: Car accident and Infidelity

_goldenbooks's review against another edition

emotional medium-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Islamophobia

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Death of parent and Infidelity

betweentheshelves's review

emotional reflective slow-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

I went into this not knowing much about it, and just wow. Apparently I'm in a novel in verse kick, and I would highly recommend the audiobook (again). The author reads it, and it's done so well. The story here is heart-achingly beautiful, about a girl who doesn't really know where she fits in when suddenly, she's not close with her best friend Haitham.

Elhillo explores what could have been by going into the past. Nima's afraid she's disappearing, but maybe she just needs to confront what got her to where she is. There are gorgeous lines in this book, and you're sucked in right from the beginning.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia

Moderate: Hate crime, Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Bullying, Infidelity, and Medical content

sartastic's review

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Islamophobia, Death, Death of parent, and Hate crime

Minor: Bullying, Infidelity, Medical content, and Racial slurs