Reviews tagging 'Cultural appropriation'

Słońce w mroku by Stephenie Meyer

8 reviews

jerbarger's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Was this totally unnecessary? Like, yeah, probably. But I enjoyed it so much. It’s worth it, just to see Edward’s POV, especially in regard to how he interacts with his family and the extent of what his powers can do. That car chase scene? Epic. If they do make the TV show (I hope they don’t), then they totally need to draw from MIDNIGHT SUN. I’d only recommend this if you’re already a huge TWILIGHT fan.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Blood, Death, Violence, and Cultural appropriation

Moderate: Murder, Classism, Infertility, Car accident, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Animal death, Child abuse, Stalking, Torture, and Vomit

bashsbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

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

2.25

Midnight Sun is not what I would call a great book, but it is a fascinating one. If you can get past all of Edward's self-loathing and inability to do anything right (which is extremely hard), there are a few interesting tidbits to mull over. I think one of my main gripes with the Twilight saga in general is that every now and then Meyer touches on something compelling and then zooms right past it for the angsty romance factors.

1. Edward's relationship to Rosalie is so strange and captivating. He loathes her, but he thinks about her the most out of all his family members. Obviously, Rosalie was Bella's foil in the main series, but I never gave much thought to how that impacted Edward's perspective of her.
2. The deeper depiction and explanations of Alice and Jasper's abilties were cool. 
3. I despise the way Edward's mind-reading is depicted. I think it falls into many of the pitfalls that make me dislike most mind-reading characters. The apathy, the loathing for what people think in the privacy of their own heads, the lack of any personal ethics, the fact that he is not impacted at all beyond annoyance... that's a little too flat and Christian for my mind-reading opinions. That said, there is a great moment where Edward uses Emmett and Jasper's minds as his rearview mirrors. This is the ONLY good thing Meyer wrote about Edward's mind-reading.

But those things aside, this book is a slog. Edward's angst is overwrought and hard to read. Add in the Cullens' holier-than-thou vibes and it's just. none of the fun that vampires usually are.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Blood, Stalking, and Violence

Moderate: Cultural appropriation, Gore, Racism, and Murder

Minor: Cursing, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Pedophilia, Rape, and Drug use

-Racism & cultural appropriation tags are more about how fucked up Meyer's portrayal of the Quileute Tribe than anything that happens in-book (though Edward is hostile toward them).

a_wren_that_reads's review against another edition

dark funny medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Death, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

shutupmaybe's review against another edition

funny sad tense

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

4.0

Edward Cullen I hate being in your head but I'd be a liar if I said this stupid book didn't take me on a roller coaster ride. I laughed, I screamed, I wished and prayed for your spontaneous combustion despite knowing it was a futile hope. This book is a MUST for anyone who read the original series. Sure, it might make you hate The Cullens more, or hate Edward more, or, well... hate any of the characters more (except Jacob—that's one character that was spared; so three cheers for you baby Jake fans) but you'll come out the other side a changed person. Definitely a darker read than Twilight or any of the follow-up books in the series, but trust me, you'll still laugh at the amount of lampshading and retconning Stephenie Meyer does. It's worth it alone to read

the car chase scene

so I'd say read it if just to read the chapter titled 'Race'. You can thank me later.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Classism, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Cultural appropriation

Moderate: Blood, Violence, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Racism and Sexual assault

zoemorana's review against another edition

reflective tense 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Blood, Stalking, and Cultural appropriation

Minor: Murder

megselyane's review against another edition

challenging tense slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Blood, Sexism, Stalking, Torture, Toxic friendship, Violence, Animal death, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Cultural appropriation, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Racism, Medical trauma, and Medical content

Minor: Bullying, Fatphobia, Suicide attempt, Ableism, and Addiction

unloveliest's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Toxic relationship, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Misogyny, Murder, Kidnapping, Sexism, Sexual assault, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Sexual harassment, Torture, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, and Car accident

Moderate: Abandonment, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Animal death, Cultural appropriation, Child abuse, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Grief, Cursing, and Confinement

whatevertheysay's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Cultural appropriation, Violence, and Body horror