Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Walking Practice by Dolki Min

4 reviews

melliedm's review against another edition

dark funny reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

What's all this nonsense, you say? Just think of it as the ramblings of a life-form pretending to be human. It won't be that important to you, dear reader.

A strange, intensely evocative novel about the sensation of being alien to the society you live in, discussing concepts like masking, isolation, anxiety, and desire in a package equally relatable and…well, alien. 

Maybe it’s just the autistic, chronically ill, queer in me—but yeah. This one hit home.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Body shaming, Murder, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Gore, Hate crime, and Vomit

Moderate: Fatphobia, Ableism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Transphobia

Minor: Body shaming, Animal death, Excrement, and Dysphoria

kaiyakaiyo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

buying this in print both because it was lovely and because my ereader did not do the art justice! 

wow! what can i say. such a fresh premise, the narrative voice was so refreshing, i don’t think I’ve ever read a book anything like this. if you have, PLEASE recommend! favorite book this year i think

unapologetically queer and making very interesting points about who this world is designed for both physically and in a more abstract sense. definitely graphic and gory but that takes a surprising backseat to the emotions of the main char. idk this book was just great and a lovely opener for Halloween month.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Cannibalism, Hate crime, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Gore, Body horror, Blood, Violence, Vomit, and Sexual content

Moderate: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Misogyny, Death, Ableism, Cursing, Excrement, Transphobia, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexism

katieconrad's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, and Body horror

Moderate: Ableism, Sexism, Transphobia, and Xenophobia

Minor: Grief

storyorc's review against another edition

challenging dark funny reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

There is a sick delight in reading something that actually manages to express the depths of how disgusting it can feel to wear a human body: "I feel like a food waste bag dripping its rotten soup." One of many visceral descriptions. The typography tricks are a great way to echo the melting human form too.

Mumu, the grotesque alien predator, is absurdly relatable - the perpetual battle to 'disarm' the body so it behaves, pride in hard-earned tips and tricks for presenting feminine, even just the slow torture of existing on a subway each day. It was brave of Min to put this out here so nakedly.
 
The ending is

inevitable and heart-rendering

but also came at the right moment for the novella not to overstay its welcome. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Body horror

Moderate: Sexism