Reviews tagging 'Islamophobia'

The Other Americans by Laila Lalami

9 reviews

jessehersh's review

emotional 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: Infidelity, Xenophobia, and Islamophobia

machenn's review against another edition

emotional mysterious 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, Car accident, Death of parent, Infidelity, Alcohol, Hate crime, and War

Minor: Bullying, Racial slurs, and Islamophobia

zoenelson's review

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death of parent, Car accident, Racial slurs, and Islamophobia

Moderate: Murder, Alcohol, War, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Misogyny, Hate crime, and Violence

Minor: Addiction

whitneyonline's review

hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing 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? It's complicated

5.0

Easily one of my favorites of the year. I loved its simplicity, but yet it held so much weight. It wasn't fast paced but it never once dragged, and I found myself devouring every chapter with an intense greed. Lalami executes the multiple POVs flawlessly, keeping the chapters short and enticing all while creating extremely compelling characters. I was obsessed from start to finish. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Hate crime, Infidelity, Islamophobia, Xenophobia, Grief, Racism, Racial slurs, and Murder

orireading's review

emotional mysterious reflective 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Islamophobia, and Racism

annreadsabook's review

challenging emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Car accident, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, War, and Murder

Moderate: Islamophobia

Minor: Hate crime

znvisser's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Islamophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, War, and Infidelity

Minor: Bullying

kaseyd's review

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

I’m very disappointed by the romance in this book and how it ended. The premise was interesting and I was getting into it, putting up with the romance because I knew it wouldn’t last. Ha.

At the end, it’s just another story of a woman giving up on her dreams to come be with a man who she is actually afraid of and who goes against all of her ideals. Giving up on never getting married and having a kid.

 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Death of parent, Hate crime, Infidelity, Islamophobia, Police brutality, and Racism

Minor: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, Murder, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Sexism, and Xenophobia

quirkychaos's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Read this for a book club and, although it's a heavy read I really enjoyed it. It's told my a number of characters, each their own unreliable narrator telling their own truths – the story was compelling and the characters drew me in.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Racism, and Violence

Minor: Alcoholism, Addiction, Bullying, Death, Drug use, and Racial slurs