Reviews tagging 'Cultural appropriation'

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

59 reviews

seanml's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A supremely excellent narrative. Daphne de Maurier allows you to feel the complete dread that the protagonist does about every possible thing. Wonderful characters (As terrible as they may be), palpable fear, and real anger at a certain character. 10/10.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Gaslighting

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Classism

Minor: Animal cruelty, Cancer

mynameisrebecca's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Minor: Racism, Xenophobia, Cultural appropriation

raisinreads's review against another edition

3.75

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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yeah, I would not call it romantic, but I enjoyed it. These old write authors always hit you with the casual racism.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Violence, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol

Minor: Cancer, Incest, Infertility, Terminal illness, Medical content

themissyreads's review against another edition

4.75

mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Classism

Minor: Fatphobia, Homophobia, Cultural appropriation

Period typical attitudes regarding race, class and intellectual disability.

blacksphinx's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Racism, Toxic relationship, Grief, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol

Moderate: Alcoholism, Incest, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Classism

Minor: Cancer, Infertility, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury

arayo's review against another edition

4.5

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Murder

Moderate: Incest, Infidelity, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief

Minor: Cancer, Terminal illness, Dementia, Cultural appropriation

aude's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Murder, Classism

Moderate: Cancer, Incest, Forced institutionalization

Minor: Animal cruelty, Suicide, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation

daniellarae's review against another edition

3.75

mysterious reflective relaxing slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Beautifully written but not that much actually happens. The book focuses mainly on relationship dynamics and society of the time period which is interesting to interpret and dissect. Beatrice Lacy was the only enjoyable character for me, but Frank was a sweetheart.

I was a bit disappointed at the lack of ghostly presence and atmosphere that I was expecting. I thought it would be creepier. The twist was also quite predictable.

A classic nonetheless.

(My content warning tags may contain some minor spoilers)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Classism

Minor: Body shaming, Death, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Murder, Cultural appropriation

bone_empress's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Classism

Minor: Incest, Cultural appropriation

Ableism: there's an adult character that may have a developmental disability. People talk down to him and use disparaging words to describe him, and he is portrayed as being unintelligent. It's also heavily implied that he may have also been emotionally abused in the past and threatened with being institutionalized. The character is not present for most of the book. Bullying and emotional abuse: one character is intentionally hurtful to the narrator, playing upon the narrator's fears and insecurities. The narrator's husband stonewalls her sometimes and the narrator is impacted negatively. Cultural appropriation: Characters dress up in appropriated attire at an event. One is in brown face. Incest: a secondary character had a consensual relationship with a non-immediate family member in the past. Not described in detail. Suicide: a character is theorized to have successfully ended their life and the method is generally described but does not give violent details. Suicidal thoughts (very mild spoiler, no names):

a character tries to convince another character to jump out a window from which they would not survive the fall. No attempt is made.

batcaves's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Sexism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism