Reviews tagging 'Classism'

Assembly by Natasha Brown

26 reviews

nadia_luq's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Classism, Cancer, Terminal illness, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Slavery, and Sexism

nialiversuch's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Hate crime, Classism, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Racism, Sexual assault, Colonisation, Cursing, and Racial slurs

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, and Slavery

solasuaine's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective fast-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? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racial slurs, Cancer, Classism, and Colonisation

_fallinglight_'s review

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.5

A Black British woman writes what is basically her manifesto and suicide letter explaining her choice to not seek treatment for her metastatic cancer and details her history of continuous dehumanization and racism with a list of incidents of workplace sexual harassment, microaggressions, and full on racist interactions in every level of her life but most significantly in her professional sphere. She's promoted in her banking career but the suits make it seem she's just a diversity hire/promotion to look good. One day in her job after her promotion, a man married to one of her boyfriend's sisters goes on rant on how Black and Hispanic people have it easier but he's not actually against diversity, he just wants fairness. Then she's invited to her boyfriend's his parents weekend marriage anniversary dinner at his estate home, with further classist and more racist mocking by them, and throughout all that, we learn through the MC how Britain still doesn't recognize their history of abusive imperialism and colonization. We see how abortive losers use immigration as scapegoat to justify their mediocrity and seek validation for their loser selves being racist. The MC shares her grievances of being dehumanized every moment of her life and how she's literally done, so much so, that beating cancer and surviving would condemn her to keep this hellish state and how not only would she be a cancer survivor, but a Black cancer survivor, so all that would add to her being further objectified and cheaply used as "inspiration". It's a very bleak book bc you can feel the mc's exhaustion soak through you as you read and you get so angry at the fact that the white instigators of all this are oblivious throughout all of their lives. Sometimes though, it feels like the MC has a chip on her shoulder and maybe she's overanalyzing her boyfriend's parents and sister mundane behavior bc living in a white world is startling enough but no they open their mouths and they really are like that. The writing here is insightful, with gut-punch quotes. You'll have a hard time trying to not highlight the whole thing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Cancer, Deportation, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Classism

Minor: Racial slurs

jamesdavid's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Racism, Infidelity, Xenophobia, Sexism, Classism, Death, Terminal illness, and Colonisation

flowingleaves's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Racism, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Slavery, Cancer, and Colonisation

rashi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

I find the style of writing- those fragmented thoughts and philosophising and musings to be very similar to the way I love to think and write. Assembly was not what I expected, more poetry than standard narrative, but I think it really allowed so many thoughts and concepts to be incorporated in such a short time, by the end of the less than 100 pages I really knew parts of this character, and felt that I connected to the decisions and frustrations she faced, even if they do not explicitly reflect my own. Flew through the novel, great pacing and overall really enjoyable read

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness, Racism, Classism, and Colonisation

rebeccajost's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Racial slurs and Classism

nosophiesallowed's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective tense slow-paced

4.0

this book was practically poetry in the way it read. i felt at times unable to fully grasp the concepts due to how purposefully vague the writing was, but i’d love to slowly reread it sections at a time and really unpack all the complex notions that are within each line.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Classism, and Racism

marissab's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Cancer, Racism, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Terminal illness, Classism, Colonisation, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Xenophobia

Minor: Death, Medical content, Racial slurs, Trafficking, Car accident, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, and Sexual assault