Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

5 reviews

stinekristin's review

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Antisemitism, Hate crime, and Violence

Moderate: Murder, Suicide, and Death

amandas_bookshelf's review against another edition

challenging dark informative tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Religious bigotry, Antisemitism, Hate crime, Violence, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Deportation and Classism

Minor: Forced institutionalization and Kidnapping

mnatale100's review

dark emotional funny reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Xenophobia, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Abandonment, Suicide, Gaslighting, Ableism, War, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Minor: Gun violence, Death of parent, Alcohol, Death, Mental illness, Cursing, Deportation, Forced institutionalization, Murder, and Police brutality

emilyb3343's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Religious bigotry, Ableism, Antisemitism, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, and Violence

transpinestwins's review

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

3.0

There’s little point to an alternate history novel where things, ultimately, wind up more or less the same. The “alternate” section of this particular history only lasts about two years, with FDR swooping in to restore the world as we know it after Roth hastily writes his own villains (though even using that word is a disservice to Roth’s writing and how expertly he depicts the many terrors, betrayals, and citizen-to-public-figure love affairs of politics, plus how it feels to live in “uncertain times,” hint hint) out of the narrative. I enjoyed this as I was reading it, since the characters feel real and complex and Roth obviously did his research, but the ending was an anticlimax. The world likely  would be very different had Charles Lindbergh won the 1940 presidential election — but how? This book doesn’t tell us. It’s unwilling to fully buy into its own premise, to shift too far away from recorded history.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Antisemitism and Hate crime