Reviews tagging 'Racism'

What's Mine and Yours by Naima Coster

39 reviews

niquee3317's review against another edition

emotional sad tense medium-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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Grief, Gun violence, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, and Racism

Moderate: Addiction and Drug abuse

lovelymisanthrope's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

I received a copy of this book as a gift.
"What's Mine and Yours" follows multiple points of view of different families grappling with racist decisions that greatly impact their individual lives. Gee's mother wants her son to have the best in his life, and that means attending the best school now that they have opened it up to black students. Noelle's mother will not acknowledge that Noelle is half Latina, and instead only sees her daughter as white. Noelle and Gee end up working together on a school play, and their worlds quickly become linked in ways neither expected.
I was excited to read this story because I do enjoy reading about the human struggle, but this book just did not click for me. I was never invested in the characters' stories, and I did not care what was going on. I think I was immediately drawn into one character from the beginning, but he is killed almost immediately, and I was very unhappy with this turn of events. Because of this, I did not want to connect to the rest of the story.
I think this book has its audience, unfortunately, that audience is not me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Gun violence, Murder, Racism, and Death of parent

Moderate: Infertility

eyedoc's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Abortion, Addiction, Hate crime, Infertility, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Grief, and Murder

jamiejanae_6's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Miscarriage, Hate crime, Infidelity, Medical content, Murder, Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Grief, Racism, Bullying, Infertility, and Sexual content

sgrizzle's review against another edition

sad slow-paced

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

2.5

I wanted to like this more than I did. It has a lot of structural elements that I generally do- multiple perspectives, told over time, but it just never quite came together. Too much was spent with characters who were ultimately secondary which left me feeling ultimately disconnected from what should have been the heart of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Racism

Moderate: Homophobia and Addiction

dominic_t's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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? Yes

3.0

This one is a challenging read. Watching the characters engage in self-destructive behavior again and again was uncomfortable. It is well-written and the characters are well-developed. 

The ending really got to me.

It broke my heart to see Gee fuck up his relationship with Noelle beyond repair. I was rooting for them! Although I will give the author props for the late reveal. Totally surprised me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Infidelity, Drug use, and Racism

Moderate: Miscarriage and Racial slurs

beklovesbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional

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

2.25

Really interesting non-linear format of moving forward and backward in time sometimes by decades other times by a month and each time changing whose perspective the story is being told from while overlapping in someway with the other storytellers and stories. It would have been helpful to start a timeline and list of characters at the beginning.

Overall a pretty depressing book as people are constantly using one another, tolerating neglect, and there’s just so much graphic emphasis on sex!

Interesting perspective of poverty, race, and generational trauma. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Drug use, and Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent, Gun violence, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Infertility, Bullying, Classism, Xenophobia, Abortion, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, and Racism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Trafficking, Vomit, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Murder, Pregnancy, Slavery, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

briannad4's review against another edition

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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content, Death of parent, Abortion, Racism, and Hate crime

Moderate: Addiction, Miscarriage, Abandonment, and Drug abuse

d0505's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Terminal illness, Miscarriage, Racism, and Infidelity

marielaabrown's review

emotional hopeful reflective medium-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? Yes

4.0

I think it would take real maturity to write such a book with such human story-lines and complex and nuanced characters.

The ending was simultaneously perfect and too messy ~ maybe i wish it was longer

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Abortion, Miscarriage, and Infidelity