Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas

5 reviews

sulaasg's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

4.75

Spectacularly well constructed, I loved every second of this book. There were some novel ideas around time travel, and some interesting introspection on how we feel about our past and future selves. 
The female centric narrative was delightful, and the idea that an innovation by four women would create a female centric work force. 
My only issue, and this might be because I read the book in two days on my holiday while occasionally hungover, but I ended up fucking back and forth to confirm if a character was someone we'd already met or not. 
I've started wondering if the story would feel changed if read in chronological order, and I'm tempted to come back to the book in a few months and give it a try. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Grief

Moderate: Gun violence, Ableism, and Mental illness

Minor: Sexual harassment

maresuju's review

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Mental illness, Death, Ableism, and Gun violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Murder, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Suicide attempt, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Cancer, Eating disorder, Animal death, Blood, and Pregnancy

spinat's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

The book is more about psychology and mental health, than about science nitty-gritty. It raises some interesting topics. Though many characters are facing mental health issues, and perception of death being a big theme, the book has a rather warm tone, with loving family members and life partners.

and the conclave conditioning its employees out of compassion, the harm that it's doing, and an individual's role in it all, are scary reflections of reality, and we'll portrayed, I think.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Ableism, Blood, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Grief, Sexual harassment, and Animal cruelty

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

I enjoyed this book. It had a really interesting exploration of time travel and the rules governing travelers. I also thought the characters were interesting and I'm always delighted to find queer representation in random books I pick up. 

📘The Gist 📘: Time travel takes the mystery out of everything, including death. It also makes it possible to solve certain crimes. When a woman in her 80s is murdered in a locked room, her death spawns am investigation that stretches across time. 

📒Representation📒: wlw mc, bipoc mc and sc, senior mc

💕 For readers looking for 💕: interesting time travel, mystery, a touch of romance

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Blood, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Sexual content

aardwyrm's review

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

4.0

The mystery, worldbuilding, and conceit carry the book to great heights of technical accomplishment. You never figure anything out until a moment before the characters do, but it always makes sense when you get there. The characters themselves are deeply strange, but they're supposed to be.

Dialogue is rather strangely arranged, with paragraph breaks in all the wrong places. Stylistically, this works to make the act of reading a sort of constant time travel itself. You're forever tracking back and forth to figure out who's talking. While it works on a meta level, the affectation does make reading kind of a weird mechanical experience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Murder, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Eating disorder, Death of parent, Death, Car accident, Alcoholism, and Ableism