Reviews tagging 'Deadnaming'

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

95 reviews

na_no's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• 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: Racism

Moderate: Physical abuse, Rape, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Deadnaming, Misogyny, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

elianawolfson's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

3.75

Enjoyed the writing style and the themes- I understand the reception this book has received, but it just wasn’t really my taste. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual assault, Drug use, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Transphobia

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Miscarriage, and Toxic relationship

annika_katharina's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Racism

Moderate: Transphobia and Sexual assault

Minor: Deadnaming and Miscarriage

_aine_16's review against another edition

fast-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

3.5

my mum gave me this book and it was pretty good! I really like all the povs so you can see different aspects of the characters, and how they all tie together. the chapters are quite short so it's an easy read. the end is quite cheesy but I did not like how often it used lesbian slurs 😀 which was very often, in a casual way

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Misogyny

Minor: Homophobia, Deadnaming, and Toxic friendship

kirsto's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Transphobia, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, and Deadnaming

lizzyfields's review

inspiring reflective 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, and Racism

Moderate: Transphobia and Drug use

Minor: Deadnaming

brittenypark's review

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-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

3.5

The book is a good read for appreciating different prospectives. I love the range of characters portrayed. 

However there are a few things that I disliked about the writing, the two main ones being the way the author writes young people gives all young people this characterisation of being over-sensitive and arrogant, the other is the structure for the writing with minimal punctuation and capitalisation which was a bit hard to follow if your distracted while reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Racism

Minor: Biphobia, Deadnaming, Death of parent, and Fatphobia

culown's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Transphobia and Xenophobia

davidrb's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

UGH so good! More than deserving of all the acclaim. The characters feel like living, breathing people, while also cutting clear strokes about real world issues. Highlights for me were Amma, Yazz, Carole, and Bummi. Less impressed with Shirley, Winsome, and Penelope, though even then, the way they tie into the themes and story is wonderful. Just a fantastic read. The style works so, so well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Deadnaming, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, and Xenophobia

majowa's review

emotional funny inspiring reflective 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: Child death, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Lesbophobia, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Cancer, Colonisation, and Slavery