Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Lark Ascending by Silas House

7 reviews

jenvogel80's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

Recommend 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicide, Violence, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Homophobia, Torture, and War

hanlikefawn's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

A very quick, painfully beautiful read. It felt intentionally heart-wrenching and at moments like the author wanted us to suffer reading it. I don’t love this vision of our future and I generally prefer more hopeful dystopian fiction, but I think this is an important read that will linger with me for a while.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Death, Child death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Homophobia

odd_eye's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.75

 Don't have much to say other than I really enjoyed this; it was a quick read for me. I liked the style, cared for the characters, looked forward to what would happen next. Other dystopian/post-apocalyptic books explore the sociopolitical aspect (fundamentalism, hyper-nationalism, geopolitics etc.)  more thoroughly, this book is more about hope, survival, and I'll even say loneliness/community. The ending left a bit to be desired for me, but I didn't feel completely let down by it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Moderate: Violence

Minor: War and Homophobia

abscott's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, War, Murder, Animal cruelty, Grief, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Homophobia, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide attempt, Racism, and Torture

kenziebell449's review

4.25

I wish I could be the editor for this book— not perfect but such good bones

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide and War

Moderate: Homophobia

___'s review

adventurous dark inspiring tense medium-paced

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

3.0

The protagonist made some really dumb decisions I have a hard time forgiving. I also wasn't invested enough in the characters to care about the romantic element at all. Both the narration and editing were kinda weird at times too.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Murder, and Death

Minor: Death of parent, Homophobia, and Child death

shieldbearer's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death of parent, Genocide, Grief, Homophobia, Hate crime, Gun violence, Mental illness, Police brutality, Violence, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Classism, Confinement, Medical content, and Lesbophobia

Moderate: Racism and Vomit