Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham

4 reviews

kenziehath's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Pandemic/Epidemic, Chronic illness, Hate crime, Misogyny, Death, Gore, Cannibalism, and Injury/Injury detail

lordslag's review

funny tense 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? No

3.0

Really cool concept and such cute friendships and wlw romance. Hated the lesbian character being in love with a straight girl trope (you win some you lose some). The plot twist was really predictable and even though the book came with a trigger warning page it didn’t talk about the racism in the book? Which is off-putting to me especially when reading from non-black authors, paired with the first three pages being like, “This is Zoey, this is Zoey’s Black friend, this is Zoey’s white friend, and this is Zoey’s Latina friend”. Like it just gave me an icky feeling having the characters introductions being reduced to their race. I don’t know if maybe I had a bad copy because there was also some grammatical errors and my epilogue chapter says “ehilogue” so idk. All that aside it was still a fun story to read, I just don’t think I’ll be picking up anything else from this author.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cannibalism, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

sav_22's review

adventurous dark funny hopeful medium-paced

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

4.25

This was a fun ride! It’s a perfect balance of horrifying and endearing. The main group is a group of girls trauma bonded by the event that changed the world known as The Hollowing. I found all of the girls to be relatable and intriguing to get to know; even when it mainly follows a first person one narrator format, we get pov switches in the form of flashbacks in 3rd person to dive into other characters. There’s romance and a hint of a love triangle, but I would say that it is very much a subplot to the overall plot. All of the four main characters are sapphic, which to me is something I always appreciate when writers realistically write queer people sticking together.

There are some questions left unanswered imo, and it’s kind of an open ending, but it doesn’t deter from the overall satisfaction of the book for me. There are some intense horror elements like body horror and gore, but it wasn’t overdone or overzealous. I really enjoyed reading the evolution of the main couple, even if it wasn’t a major focus and it was predictable I think that it complimented the story and themes well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cannibalism, Racism, Drug use, Blood, Gore, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Body horror, Cursing, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, and Grief

Minor: Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, and Transphobia

lovelydeadgirl's review against another edition

funny 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Deadnaming, Injury/Injury detail, Cannibalism, Bullying, Blood, and Panic attacks/disorders