Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings

4 reviews

ajay913's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Violence, Abandonment, Animal death, Torture, Murder, Blood, and Misogyny

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Biphobia, Racial slurs, Hate crime, Racism, and Homophobia

Minor: Bullying

rcsreads's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Misogyny, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Bullying, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Homophobia, Drug use, Grief, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Murder, Violence, Religious bigotry, Sexism, and Torture

meganmalonefranklin's review

dark mysterious tense

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Hate crime, Forced institutionalization, Alcohol, Death of parent, Blood, Misogyny, Torture, Lesbophobia, Gore, and Abandonment

mjscooke's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

I received a digital reading copy of this from Pan Macmillan via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Set in a dystopian world where single women are monitored for signs of witchcraft, The Women Could Fly is a simple novel of grief & self discovery steeped in magical realism. Fourteen years after her mother's disappearance Josephine is still dealing with her grief and grappling with the unfair world she lives in and struggling with how her country & society controls its citizens. More social commentary than gripping story, it is  worth the read for sarcasm and defiance of the protagonist and if you enjoy a meandering prose of thoughts.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment and Grief

Minor: Death of parent, Hate crime, Biphobia, Police brutality, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture