Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

The Trees by Percival Everett

74 reviews

lizardbet's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

damn

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child death, Racism, Gore, Violence, Death, Blood, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, and Hate crime

gracesullentrup's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Body horror, Racial slurs, Blood, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racism, and Violence

janann's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Child abuse, Child death, Racism, Violence, Hate crime, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, and Bullying

laudelui's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

 Antes de empezar el libro leí en la contra un comentario del escritor de cómo había surgido la idea del libro. Y es un buen resumen pero creo que casi mejor ir sin saber nada sobre el libro. Tiene un punto de humor negro muy bueno, tratando un tema importante cómo lo hace. Es una rebelión con espacio para el humor. Hay además detectives y un caso y muchos tópicos.

Cómo habían comentado en la Llama Store (es de dónde viene la recomendación, de la subscripción de su libro al mes) al no saber si un nombre es más tópico para un grupo de personas u otras igual perdemos contexto, pero el fondo del libro es imposible que se te pase por alto. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Murder

Moderate: Hate crime, Body horror, Death, Blood, and Gun violence

Minor: Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Police brutality, and Alcoholism

acchristopher14's review

challenging dark emotional funny fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Hate crime

rachaelreadsalot's review

dark funny mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Hate crime, Stalking, Racism, and Torture

Minor: Slavery and Police brutality

musebeliever's review

dark emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Death, Police brutality, Racism, Racial slurs, Body horror, Hate crime, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, and Religious bigotry

bookb1itch's review

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

thanks, Aidan, for insisting I read this.  I LOVED the dark humour and the completely weird story, but confess I'm not sure I completely GET IT.  I totally understand the "why", but am a bit confounded by the "how" of this story.  (Although I feel this is a "me" problem", it is why I haven't given the book a perfect score. ) As a commentary on racism, it is perfect.  I'm now looking for the right mature students to share this with, and am sure my English Lit teacher friends will also enjoy it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Racial slurs, Racism, Blood, Violence, Death, Hate crime, and Murder

nialiversuch's review

challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Blood, Death of parent, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Murder, Religious bigotry, Xenophobia, Alcoholism, Body horror, Classism, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Hate crime, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Racism, Violence, Alcohol, Body shaming, Ableism, Death, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Misogyny, Police brutality, Physical abuse, and Racial slurs

isabezza's review

challenging dark informative mysterious medium-paced

3.75

The Trees is a gory and psychologically engaging thriller with a historically accurate theme of social justice and racial hatred. I considered this novel informative on many levels as it exposed the extreme violence subjected to black bodies in the USA throughout history. Interestingly, without a time frame given at the beginning of the narrative, I assumed this book was set pre 1960's for a few chapters based on the horrific and outdated behaviours of many characters, before cultural clues and modern technology appeared in the text resulting in my realisation that is story is representing a possibility in the PRESENT DAY. For this and many other factors, the story was eye-opening. I also enjoyed the more light hearted elements of the text, such as the brotherly banter between detectives Ed and Jim and the not-so-generous hilarious representation of Trump (although his name was not explicitly mentioned.)
My only criticisms of this book was the amount of characters becoming too complex to follow when the crimes depicted are supernatural and bizarre enough. Additionally, the writing style was a little aggravating, with "Jim said," "Ed said," etc. after every sentence of dialogue, but try not to let this get in the way of how exciting the story is. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Violence, Murder, Gore, Genocide, Racial slurs, Grief, Racism, and Hate crime