Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante

5 reviews

augie_'s review

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Toxic friendship, Death, Medical content, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Hate crime, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Infidelity, and Grief

readbycarina's review

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Toxic friendship, Child death, Grief, Hate crime, Death, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Homophobia, Classism, Abandonment, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Mental illness, Death of parent, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Terminal illness

finleigh's review

adventurous emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Infidelity, and Homophobia

jeanlobrot98's review

reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime and Transphobia

Minor: Addiction and Child death

cassreading's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

After finishing the Neapolitan quartet, I feel that strange emptiness that comes from exiting a literary world that has become almost more real than your own. These books, especially this last one, are philosophical, concerned with the boundaries of selfhood and identity, with violence, passion, politics, and the meaning of the written word, without being overbearing the way a lot of literary fiction is. That's because the whole epic is really driven by Elena and Lila, two amazingly fleshed out and dynamic characters who have such a rich, complex (toxic?) relationship. Their lives are so wonderfully and horribly intertwined, and reading about them is a really incredible experience. I loved these books, and I could gush about them all day long.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Homophobia, and Hate crime