Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

American Rapture by CJ Leede

17 reviews

read_rates's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

emdave's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense 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: Animal death, Death, Gore, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Hate crime, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and Pandemic/Epidemic

thegayestghost's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Biphobia, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and Pandemic/Epidemic

rachelsbookishlife's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

michelethestick's review against another edition

I didn't know i was signing up for Zombie Rape

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, and Death of parent

micahbean's review

My wife read this book before me and I'm GLAD because we would not have gotten along

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Chronic illness, and Suicide

Minor: Cursing and Self harm

the dog

dies by burning alive

amaranth_wytch's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Gun violence, Hate crime, Suicide, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Cursing, Self harm, and Medical content

cmorehouse's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad 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: Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Rape, and Sexual violence

rsoccer70's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense 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

4.5

I found this novel on a "best" list and I'm glad I picked up this fast paced story. The first-person narrator-Sophie- is 16 and being raised in a traditionalistic Catholic family and community. As the reader is learning about her repressed world, a pandemic begins to spread to Sophie's home in Wisconsin. In a remarkable twist, the virus causes the infected to become insanely sexually agressive before they perish. Things get intense as Sophie leaves her home to find her twin brother. She faces sexual violence and zombie-like infected people. There's a strong "American Gods" reference and I think the author uses this to point to a deeper theme which I appreciated. Religious terrorists enter the story 1/2 way through. This sets up a battle between the Vengeful Reaping god of the Old Testament and fundamentalistic Christianity against a loving community embodied by the found family Sophie gathers. An excellent book with great action - and many thoughts about the state of Christianity in America today. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Hate crime, Sexual assault, and Violence

kdawg420's review

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad 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

3.0

Was this book well written? Absolutely. However, I found it to be TOO serious and dark. None of the events in the book are out of the realm of possibility, and perhaps that aspect was so disturbing and I couldn't fully enjoy it . Too much death, too much sadness. The content just wasn't for me. Also, the dog death was absolutely unnecessary. She writes a letter to the reader at the end of the book to justify it, but the WAY in which the dog died was really F***ed up, in my opinion, and could have been left out of the story. I enjoyed the writing enough that I'd check out another book from this author, but I'd caution against this particular book if topics of death, violence, SA, pandemics/lockdowns, religious cults, and fires are triggering for you. And one more thing I'd like to add: the romantic feelings between a SIXTEEN YEAR OLD and twenty four year old should not have occurred in the first place. Let's stop romanticizing adult-minor relationships please. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Pandemic/Epidemic