Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

Sr. Mercedes by Павел Боянов, Весела Прошкова, Stephen King, Stephen King, Даня Доганова

18 reviews

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.25

 If there is one thing Mr. King excels at it is writing absolutely unlikable characters. Even characters that should be likeable largely have aspects that can make the reader dislike them. In some chapters this worked well and framed the event how each character saw them clearly. In other chapters the reader became enmeshed in a slog of diatribe that was a true chore to get through, even in the audiobook format. 
If you are fond of Mr. King's other works and characters you will probably like this. If you are coming in expecting a typical thriller you will not enjoy this as much. For me, despite my casual familiarity with several of King's works I found it difficult to get up to the 40% mark in the book. To the story's credit the pace does pickup upon the changing of a key character or two somewhere around the 50% mark.

The pace picks up after the death of Janey.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Child death, Murder, Incest, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Addiction, Classism, Animal death, Fatphobia, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Ableism, Sexism, and Car accident

Minor: Blood, Vomit, Excrement, and Adult/minor relationship

There is an adult/minor relationship between Brady and his mother. He claims to have been a victim of a different adult/minor relationship during his psychological torture of Olivia.

isabellaoliveira's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Mental illness, and Alcoholism

Minor: Ableism, Misogyny, and Racism

maddieloves_books1's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Sexual content, Incest, Child death, Classism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Mental illness, Racism, Racial slurs, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Car accident, Child abuse, and Death

Moderate: Grief, Alcoholism, Bullying, Misogyny, Police brutality, Sexual assault, Gore, Cursing, Ableism, Classism, Pedophilia, Drug abuse, and Hate crime

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Vomit

giuliana_ferrari's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

Would give more stars if SK didn't have this awful habit of dropping the N-bomb, writing women in a very weird manner, and overall being clearly an older, white man with little sense of what reality for POC and women are like.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Suicide, Racism, Toxic relationship, Racial slurs, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism and Alcoholism

literarilythrilling's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Incest, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Fatphobia, and Ableism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

imre_karakal's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Car accident, Murder, and Incest

Moderate: Alcohol, Ableism, Stalking, Panic attacks/disorders, Hate crime, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Racial slurs, Mental illness, and Child death

ripxw's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-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? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Car accident, Domestic abuse, and Pedophilia

Minor: Suicide attempt

I very rarely post spoilers even if it’s a TW, but there was a scene in here that is making me break that rule: there is couple pages in the book that involve killing a child that has a developmental disability. It is very graphic and leading up to the death it’s rife with ableist abuse

schmitzy_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Racial slurs, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Child death, Child abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Vomit