Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

Vermelho, Branco e Sangue Azul by Casey McQuiston

54 reviews

grayscale08's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia, Cancer, Cursing, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual content

Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, Addiction, Drug use, Racism, Rape, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Xenophobia, and Sexism

wts_tiffany's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful slow-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? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Homophobia

Moderate: Biphobia, Racism, Xenophobia, and Cursing

Minor: Alcohol

reki_oeo's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

I absolutely love all the pop cuture references!! :D

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Xenophobia, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Drug abuse, Rape, Stalking, and Colonisation

saturn26's review against another edition

challenging funny lighthearted 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cursing, Homophobia, Outing, and Sexual content

Moderate: Xenophobia and Biphobia

luluslittlelibrary's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

3.25

I was really looking forward to reading this book because of all of the good things I have heard about it... but I was terribly disappointed. The idea for this book was great, but it wasn't executed very well. None of the plot points interested me very much and I struggled to connect to the characters. There was also no chemistry between the two main characters, Alex and Henry. Sure, it was a fine read. Good if you are looking for a cute romance that you can finish quickly, but there are many other books similar to this that are written much better. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Cursing, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Homophobia, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexual content, Grief, Xenophobia, Mental illness, and Stalking

roxette's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Outing, Racism, Sexual content, and Xenophobia

crystallis's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny inspiring lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

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

4.0

This book is very sweet and more political than you’d think.

I had heard incredible things of this book and after I finished it I shared most of them.

Alex and Henry are amazing, their relationship is gorgeous and I loved every detail about them.

The rivals to lovers trope is one of the best and most underrated tropes out there.
The way they had such a high mutual respect  (when they weren’t even friends) despite everything they disliked about each other talks worlds about how wholesome their relationship is.

Also their chemistry is wonderful.

All the other characters are very good and entertaining.

The pacing is great and the characters are quite rational with their decisions.

However, I think there are a bit too much politic talk around this book. The author clearly has a strong political point of view (which is completely fine and deserves to be respected) but I think it really demonizes the Republicans and tries to get the readers to believe that the democrats are the best people in the world. I think that bringing such confusing and complicated themes to a contemporary romance book is not needed.

And I know what you’re all thinking right now:
“oh, you really thought there was not going to be a political conversation in this book?, what were you expecting?”

I was expecting the author to use politics as an mean to an end (the start of this relationship) not to use this whole book to make a point about politics.

Besides all of this I’m really excited to read more about this author.

Read you all later. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Xenophobia

lucilaroife's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Cancer, Death of parent, Grief, Homophobia, Outing, and Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction and Drug abuse

Minor: Alcohol, Colonisation, and Xenophobia

skudiklier's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful 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? No

5.0

I've heard so much about this book and was a little worried it couldn't live up to the hype--but oh my gosh, I loved it. This book is everything people keep saying it is, and everything I wanted it to be. I felt so many things while reading this, and I felt so seen. I would really recommend Red, White & Royal Blue. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Outing, Homophobia, Grief, Cursing, and Biphobia

Moderate: Death of parent and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Xenophobia, Violence, Racism, Misogyny, Genocide, Drug use, Drug abuse, Colonisation, and Alcoholism

mnemonide's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.5

 Very cute, very entertaining and very easy to read.
I'd kill for Henry. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia and Xenophobia