Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

63 reviews

rileyswan's review

adventurous emotional funny mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Alcohol

Minor: Alcoholism

katie0528's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-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

5.0

A fun adventure following Monty, the rakeish bisexual son of a lord, his younger sister Felicity, who wishes to become a physician, and Percy, Monty's Black best friend who he is desperately in love with. The trio set out on a Grand Tour of Europe but it doesn't take Monty to make an enemy of one of the most powerful men in France who chases them across the continent. There are touches of magic in this novel which I didn't expect at first.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Homophobia, Racism, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Racial slurs, Violence, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Ableism, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and Colonisation

meliflowers's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted 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

Love a good rep for himbos!!

A well written book and a good story but it was a bit too predictable and cliché at times. I loved the characterisations and setting.

It's a good story but I couldn't really get into it or enjoy it as much as I'd hoped.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Islamophobia, and Outing

deetabz's review

adventurous emotional funny 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Biphobia, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

musicmagician823's review

adventurous lighthearted 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

voidature's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

1.5

i don’t know how to start this review tbh. there’s a lot to say and none of it is very good. i only gave it two stars because the writing itself is good, but she as a white woman had no business writing this kind of story with the amount of racial slurs used and the general theme, and i spent the entire time while reading it beside myself with mixed feelings.

it’s disgusting to ship percy with monty and it’s gross that they still get together at the end given how monty treats him throughout the novel but especially in the beginning—because this is the monty percy would have been exposed to since they were boys. a monty who will say racist things to him when he gets upset, percy who is supposedly his best friend, and even despite that percy is so patient with him and has to *teach* him about racism even when monty barely makes an effort to understand or accept that he has a white savior complex.

monty went through a huge character growth arc, but percy didn’t have the same kind of growth, and monty went through that growth at the expense of percy’s dignity, being written with an illness, who was used as a prop for him. not to mention scipio’s crew, who were also used as props to help monty grow.

i have no idea how or why this book is so highly rated given the contents of it and how the author chooses to write her characters. and after reading the reviews and finding out she’s transphobic as well, i’m unsurprised to find that my gut feeling about this book reading the way it does is correct.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, and Injury/Injury detail

eidal's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Medical content, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Gore, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Classism

Minor: Ableism, Cursing, Drug use, Infidelity, Slavery, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

littlesnowcloud's review

adventurous emotional reflective 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

4.5

Significantly heavier in topic than the summary blurb suggests, with a bit more magic involved than expected. A good read with good characters. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Medical content, Death of parent, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Infidelity

marsh_mall0w's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Racism, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Gun violence, Homophobia, Slavery, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Minor: Infertility, Racial slurs, Self harm, and Sexism

mickij's review

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? Yes

5.0

Ooo! A book got 5 whole stars! Usually, that means it did something extraordinary, and it did exactly that! I have never been so sure I wanted to buy a book in my life!

Beyond that, I suppose I should talk about the book. This book is utterly fascinating for a variety of reasons. For one, it's grounded in history but it's not bleak for the characters of color. Slavery is mentioned, as it somewhat has to be for a book set in the 18th century, it's not weighing heavily on the narrative. A second thing is that 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Medical content, Death of parent, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Deadnaming, Racism, and Vomit

Minor: Alcoholism, Sexism, Forced institutionalization, and Religious bigotry