Reviews tagging 'Racism'

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers

14 reviews

plantdonut's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Chronic illness, Cursing, Racism, Medical content, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Sexual content and Vomit

lemonsaurus's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, and Confinement

Moderate: Infertility, Xenophobia, Grief, Pregnancy, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Slavery, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Disaster and disaster relief depictions including post disaster confinement and lack of external communication options during medical emergency

flavoredfaeman's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death, Racism, Death of parent, and War

teabrewer's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing medium-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

4.5

This a book with themes around culture, gender, parenthood, career and choices. It's set in a small reststop in a small planet no life or notable resources, when a group of strangers is gets stuck together inside it due to a unusual situation. I loved, loved, loved how the character interacted and developed, how the details of each culture were described and how each theme was approached through the book. Hopeful and emotional but not condescending.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism, Colonisation, and War

the_reading_wren's review

emotional hopeful reflective medium-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

5.0

A fantastic end to the series that ties up some loose ends from the other books and dives deeper into some of the big topics raised earlier in the series. I think this might be my favourite Wayfarers book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Racism, Xenophobia, Medical content, Colonisation, War, and Deportation

Minor: Ableism, Mental illness, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

_david_'s review against another edition

hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

I have never loved a set of characters more. They feel so real. The book was about a small private dome filled with kindness and people learning about eachother and understanding eachother. There were so many beautiful moments and I couldn't have asked for a better ending to this series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, Medical content, Cultural appropriation, and Classism

Minor: Chronic illness, Infertility, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

biobeetle's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Xenophobia

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

lipstickitotheman's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

I really respect how she writes children; it's beautiful when you can tell that someone likes and respects children in real life by how they write child characters. There is so much love in this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Xenophobia, Medical content, Grief, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Genocide, Slavery, Violence, War, and Deportation

obsetress's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Xenophobia, Pregnancy, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism and Genocide

Minor: War

A child asphyxiates and goes into a coma, but is later able to be resuscitated. Their unconscious body is described in detail, both when found and as they are being resuscitated.

acemummerz's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Genocide, Infertility, Racism, Xenophobia, Medical content, Pregnancy, Colonisation, War, and Deportation

The book explores alien cultures during a space disaster - everything discussed is about alien races / species rather than human, but it does explore some moderately difficult topics. Medical content spoiler:

an alien child gets effectively CO2 suffocated (accident) and nearly dies