Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

28 reviews

raptorq's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Racism, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Homophobia

dfrancis's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Terminal illness and Car accident

Minor: Homophobia, Racism, Pregnancy, and Colonisation

morgan_is_reading's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Moderate: Racism and Kidnapping

Minor: Homophobia

rsagarin's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Kidnapping, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Classism

himpersonal's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad 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? No

5.0

There were passages I read over and over again. This is a story that takes decades to tell, and there was a constant push-pull for me: both to getting it to the conclusion I knew must be coming and to slow it down so that the story would continue. I was desperate to know how it ends but at the same time, the story was so good that I never wanted it to end. I would love to see a sequel come out of this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Racism, Terminal illness, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

mthereader's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

2.5

Extremely heavy and sad sad book. Not much of a mystery or thriller so don’t know why it’s been labeled as such. Beyond the event where Ruthie gets taken (it’s right there in the blurb) there is no mystery to be solved. Definitely more of a family trauma saga.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

bookishmillennial's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

disclaimer: I don’t really give starred reviews. I enjoy most books for what they are, & I extract lessons from them all. I hope my reviews provide enough information to let you know if a book is for you or not. Find me here: https://linktr.ee/bookishmillennial 

I listened to the audiobook and really enjoyed the narration of Aaliya Warbus and Jordan Waunch. This is a very slow-paced book with a focus on character vignettes and development. I didn’t think the “reveal” was particularly shocking or riveting because I had guessed it pretty early on. However, knowing the major spoiler framed my reading experience in witnessing one of the character’s suspicions and overall complicated feelings.  This book takes place over the span of 50+ years & you’re given two main characters’ first-person POVs through rotating chapters. Though it was a bit predictable, I enjoyed the characters’ voices and journeys so I would try another book by this author in the future. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infertility, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

meganders22's review against another edition

emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Death, Miscarriage, and Death of parent

Minor: Homophobia