Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis

99 reviews

jax00's review against another edition

emotional informative tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I wish it was longer pieces, even if the book was 400 pages. I enjoyed reading Beth's story and her approach. The pieces just didn't connect.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Death of parent and Racial slurs

Minor: Sexual content

solouncapitulomas's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

“I could have done this at eight.” 

amazing but the tv show was even better so...yeah

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Racial slurs, Death of parent, and Sexual assault

marianneiriss's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Car accident, Death of parent, Death, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Classism, Cursing, Fatphobia, Grief, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Religious bigotry, Vomit, Sexual content, and Abandonment

icarusandthesun's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad fast-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

5.0

Great series, great book. Walter Tevis was ahead of his time. Beautiful social commentary and great representation of addiction, masterful writing and characters that you want to root for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Alcohol, and Drug use

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Car accident, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, and Racial slurs

elysh_kaye's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Racial slurs

booby's review against another edition

dark inspiring fast-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

This book was beautifully written and difficult to put down. The Netflix series was pretty true to the book and I feel like most of the changes they made were for the better considering Beth’s age throughout the story.

I definitely did not expect there to be sexual assault between two minors in the first 15 pages. It was about a page and a half.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Sexual assault, and Drug abuse

Minor: Death of parent

kavarnistka's review against another edition

inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Drug abuse, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Racial slurs

mmefish's review against another edition

1. Unlike the (superior) show, the book does not evoke any emotions.
2.  The sexual assault scene in chapter one really put me off, I did not expect that at all and certainly not from Jolene.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Sexual assault, and Racial slurs

Minor: Pedophilia

wrensreads's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Utterly brilliant writing and such a gripping narrative. I found myself unable to escape Beth’s head even when I wasn’t reading. As a fan of the Netflix show, the book was even better (as is often the case). Unfortunately the harmful racial stereotypes applied to Jolene’s character made this fall short of 5 stars for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Alcoholism

Minor: Racial slurs and Sexism

quejk25's review against another edition

dark inspiring tense 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Alcohol, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Grief, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Racism, Sexual content, Abandonment, Car accident, and Death of parent