Reviews tagging 'Cultural appropriation'

Vše, co jsme si nikdy neřekli by Celeste Ng

8 reviews

im_just_vidu's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

Here I am grieving for the life that Lydia could never lived up to. Here I am loss of words because of how heart wrenching this was.
The first line of the book is "Lydia is dead. They don't know this yet" & you would think it's such an obvious thing, so you wouldn't cry over this book. Bold of me to assume the same cuz I did not expect THAT at all. I thought this would be end up being a murder mystery, but instead it just pulled all the heart strings of mine & made me feel so heartbroken. Maybe being relatable to the characters & their situations made things way worse. At the end, I didn't get the ending I wanted. I didn't get the answers for the questions I had. Most of the things I expected didn't end up happening. But that was the beautiful thing about this. Because life is like that. Life doesn't gives you the perfect ending & the closure to everything. Most of the time we just end up with bunch of questions we don't even know what to do with. I love that. It makes this story feel so close to the heart. I didn't cry yet but my heart feels so heavy so I might end up crying after finish writing this. Who knows? However read the trigger warnings & be prepared with a tissue box beforehand.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Xenophobia, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Bullying, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Death of parent

Novel

mariecurie04's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Cultural appropriation, Suicide, Abandonment, and Racism

heidipretzel's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-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

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, Death, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Child death, and Suicide

fancyjess_party's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

2.75

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Grief, Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Grief, Racial slurs, Vomit, Cultural appropriation, Death, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Abandonment, Colonisation, Racism, and Sexism

funofme's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

probably one of the most devastating books i have ever read. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Suicide, Emotional abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Racial slurs and Cultural appropriation

Minor: Abandonment and Infidelity

phina04's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Child death, Emotional abuse, Death, Hate crime, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Abandonment, Misogyny, Bullying, Cultural appropriation, and Suicide

rosegoes3's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.0

I really liked this book. The pacing is slower than some other books I've read recently and loved, but I like the way it unfolded and found it very hard to put down. I liked that every character was flawed, and it was very clear how, but you as the reader didn't feel like you needed to berate them.

Honestly there are few flaws with this book. It's the kind of book you could analyze over and over again. Fantastic.

I wish we had more of Hannah's thoughts

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Grief

Minor: Alcohol, Child death, Death, Vomit, Suicide, Racial slurs, Racism, and Infidelity

mags_reads_'s review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Racial slurs, and Racism