Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

76 reviews

bootsmom3's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Dysphoria, Classism

Moderate: Suicide attempt

Minor: Bullying

montse978's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Murder, Abandonment, Classism

buzza_bee's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Murder

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Suicide attempt

anele_20's review against another edition

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I can't do it. It's well written but an absolute slog to get through. I only persisted since it had such a strong start in the hopes that it would amount to... something. I gave it an honest try. I just can't. I might be more tolerant if it had more focus on race relations and/or the murder but I just couldn't bring myself to connect with most of the characters. Switching to audio might allow me to get through it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Grief, Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Classism

Set in the Jim Crow south so prepare yourself for the language and attitudes that entails.

eating_apples48's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism

jlombar3's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Classism

Minor: Racial slurs

blrobin2's review against another edition

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Had the painful realization that I didn't care about what was happening. Tartt attempts to outdo Stephen King in her unnecessary slurs (N, F, and R-slurs abound), and the story amounts to so little

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism

beanewman's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark slow-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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Racial slurs, Racism

rach73's review against another edition

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I read both of Donna Tartts other novels this year and enjoyed both of them but I could not get into this one. I had a very hard time with it as seeing the n word written by a white lady so many times was jarring and the pretty blatant prejudice against lower class with bad grammatical dialogue and descriptions of their bodies. I am not sure I will pick it back up to finish the story but most likely I’ll look up the ending and be done with it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism

Moderate: Gun violence

vandana108's review against another edition

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Frequent use of racial slurs and stereotypes against African-American people.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs

Moderate: Racism