Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

La maison aux pattes de poulet by GennaRose Nethercott

42 reviews

kelecoo's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

I think I'll be thinking about it for a long time. It's super different than anything I've ever read. The kind of story that doesn't really come together until the very end? And it makes every page before then worth it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Genocide

Moderate: Hate crime

lovetoread18's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Child death, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Antisemitism, and Religious bigotry

cj13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Hate crime, Self harm, Violence, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

fieldsofcow's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Hate crime, and Antisemitism

18soft_green's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

4/5

This is a good book, unfortunately.

I say it this way because a lot of the time it felt like the author was being pretentious in her flowery style and drama. The POV switches were painful and Isaac is my least favorite type of character and Bellatine is so fucking annoying! And her statue love interest is worse! Baba Yaga herself was very interesting but her great, great, great, great grandkids are the worst! In fact, it's as if Nethercotte took my least favorite types of characters, added some quirks, and dumped them into a story.

But the story is good! The grief is real, the magic is weird, the contradictions are mysterious, the walking house is fantastic! The angst, my friends! It's such good angst! Not the relationship angst, that shit was boring as hell and annoying, but the life angst, the way the characters felt about themselves, that was the true sauce.

It also felt so fucking weird that Nethercotte constantly acknowledged the atrocities of the land. Maybe that's just my privilege talking but it felt so out of place and character for the Yaga siblings. Like, this book isn't addressing those topics so why is it bringing them up. I care very much about those issues but it felt like the story was only bringing them up out of obligation and personal responsibility rather than because it was important to the story. It was awkward for me.

4/5 I would not recommend unless the situation truly called on THIS particular book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, Mental illness, Police brutality, and Grief

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Homophobia, Misogyny, Self harm, Antisemitism, and Kidnapping

deetabz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit and Alcohol

unboxedjack's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

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

2.75

This was maybe more a 2.75 rounded up to 3 for me. While I enjoyed the theme of story as a witness to tragedy and the author does have some command of language, I found myself drifting periodically throughout the novel. It felt too long and that the author was trying too hard to be pithy at points. And while I enjoyed the difference in tone based on the narrative being shared, sometimes it felt like the author forgot which story she was writing and quickly adjusted in what felt like an abrupt shift. I could see this writer being an excellent poet, but novelist? She sort of falls short.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Violence, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, and Grief

Moderate: Child death

danaslitlist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

Beautiful prose and important messages throughout. I was pleasantly surprised by this gem. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Death

zghutcheson01's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

The ending was a little rushed and cheesy but overall the book was wonderful. It has the winding, broken aspect of a tale told by your grandparents who are remembering new parts as the telling goes on and it's absolutely beautiful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Antisemitism, and Grief

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Genocide, Gore, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

elizafiedler's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

I love a good Baba Yaga story! This one is a really cool weaving together of magic and the mundane and the power of the arts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racism, Violence, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Death, Hate crime, Toxic relationship, and Murder