Reviews tagging 'Racism'

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

23 reviews

_ao_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I wanted to give up early on, but told myself I'd give it until the end of the first third. It picked up right around 1/3 of the way through, and wound up being better than I had expected. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Violence, Xenophobia, Toxic relationship, Racism, Slavery, Blood, Classism, and Gore

Minor: Grief, Infidelity, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Torture, and War

dilara2912w's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense 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: Blood, Police brutality, Racism, Physical abuse, Mental illness, War, Death, Murder, Genocide, Classism, Violence, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Mass/school shootings, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Gaslighting, Drug use, and Bullying

picaresquedreamer's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Child abuse, Bullying, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Grief, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Kidnapping, and Alcoholism

Minor: Classism and Racism

missahrih's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

I am typically pretty good about guessing how a book proceeds next and this one caught me off guard a few different times in an enjoyable way. The clues were typically there if I took the time to think about it. The book is fast-paced which I appreciate for a book that only has one character's POV the entire time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol and Murder

Minor: Racism and Sexual harassment

polarpenguin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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: Injury/Injury detail, Trafficking, Bullying, Death of parent, Suicide, Murder, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Racism, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Vomit and War

marippe's review against another edition

3.0

The beginning is super slow and the plot kinda feels all over the place, esp with all the little storylines and characters to follow. I do think it picks up towards the end.
I dunno if this book really knows what it is - the school stuff, romance drama felt incredibly immature in comparison to the royal politics that is being played out. It didn't mesh well for me.

Jude grew on me a lot. At first I wasn't too sure about her because I didn't really understand her brain. I still don't fully get her but I liked her a lot more towards the end, shes more layered than you think initially. I'm interested to see the plot goes but it didn't really grab me? Idk.

With Cardan, I get I can see how people like him. I didn't really vibe with the bully shit, idk it made everything feel so childish.

He hates her because he's attracted to her stooooop. That "boys pulling girls ponytail because he likes her" stuff is such an ick

I think the stuff with Taryn could've been interesting if written a bit better.
I did like when Jude said "I get why he chose her. I just wish she had chosen me." I found that sad, but Jude kinda forgave Taryn too easily. I think that's in Jude's character, since she has soft spots for her siblings and she seems to be a forgiving person, but I don't think it felt that satisfying.

With Mardoc, I think the concept of loving the man who murdered your parents is interesting, but it didn't come across that well? Like I'm being told that their relationship is complex but I don't totally see how it is. I'm being told not shown it. Also, is his betrayal of Dain really that shocking? He literally murdered 2 people and kidnapped 3 children like c'mon now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Murder, and Racism

yarnarh's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I love the story. The human being dragged to fae land to live. The story line was intriguing enough from the start for me to continue reading. I love how the writer is descriptive of the world they are building but not to the point of losing the plot.

Some authors would write pages of descriptions and I would be lost about what the plot is. I love the way they write. Few sentences and then move on to the plot. Love the twist and turns though I suspected most of them before it happened. 

BookTok was right about this book. It was good and I enjoyed it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, War, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, and Racism

bloomandgloom's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.5

While the majority of this book was quite boring, I still enjoyed it. There was a pretty good amount of world building. There are also so many times you wil roll your eyes at what the MC does. The romance portions didn't land for me since lI'm not the target audience and made me consider not finishing the book. This is a decent fairy story meant for young adults (mostly teen girls), so temper your expectations if you aren't in that category. There is a lot that adults (with even the smallest amounts of romantic experience) will find annoying but for some reason books are still trying to teach young girls that if a boy is mean to you it's fine because he secretly likes you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Physical abuse, Bullying, Murder, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Slavery, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, and Sexual harassment

grommit's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-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

Fantastic politics, cruel people, and sucks you into its world

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Death of parent

Moderate: Slavery, Abandonment, Suicide, Murder, Violence, Toxic friendship, and Blood

Minor: Classism, Racism, Child death, Infidelity, Addiction, and Pregnancy

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Mental illness, Vomit, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Violence, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Self harm, Racism, Murder, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Grief, Gore, Gaslighting, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Death of parent, and Death