Reviews tagging 'Racism'

The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow

23 reviews

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful medium-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Violence

Moderate: Racism, Gun violence, Medical content, War, Child death, Alcoholism, and Murder

Minor: Police brutality, Child abuse, Infertility, Vomit, Sexual content, and Fatphobia

sophiesmallhands's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Colonisation, Violence, and Confinement

Moderate: Medical content, Alcoholism, War, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Gun violence, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Classism, Mental illness, and Police brutality

Minor: Hate crime, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Fatphobia

zombiezami's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced

3.0

When I was reading the first few chapters of this book, I thought I would like it a lot. The setup and worldbuilding were compeling.

However, by the end, I felt it was too tropey, too focused on romance, and relied too much on deus ex machina

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Violence, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Blood, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Grief, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Cursing, and Child death

Moderate: War, Torture, Racism, Police brutality, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Sexual content

zoepagereader's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense 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: War, Alcoholism, Confinement, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Genocide, Grief, Murder, Racism, Blood, Body horror, and Classism

bookishmillennial's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad 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? N/A

one of my all-time favorites, but CW: for harry potter references !!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Racism, Violence, and War

eh1736's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Racism, Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Genocide

POC main character, demi-ace main character, nonbinary side character, chronic illness rep, anxiety rep

blackcatkai's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted slow-paced

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

3.0

CW: racism, genocide, colonization, mental illness, alcoholism, death, violence

decent beginning, meh middle, slow ending. essentially, it was a fun time through the first half of the book, then a time travel aspect was added at some point that took me right out of it. this is wholly a me-not-you situation for the story. i do not like time travel the majority of the time and the paradoxes that often come with it just ruin things for me. if some light time travel might be your thing but also you dont want a whole book to revolve around it, then you may enjoy this more than i did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Genocide, Colonisation, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death, Alcoholism, and Violence

tahsintries's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Alcoholism, Hate crime, Violence, Blood, Colonisation, and Confinement

Minor: Racism and Classism

caelinsullivan's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Colonisation

Moderate: Racism, Violence, Physical abuse, and Kidnapping

my_forest_library's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Murder

Minor: Fatphobia