Reviews tagging 'Racism'

All That's Left in the World by Erik J. Brown

70 reviews

queerreaderchaos's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Omgs Are you kidding me this was so good! The narration was perfect, it made me laugh and cry and tense with anticipation. I am sad now that I finished it 🥲

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Blood, and Medical content

Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Homophobia, Vomit, and Death of parent

Minor: Religious bigotry and Sexism

lightscamerazaction's review against another edition

hopeful tense fast-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

4.5

I had a lot of fun reading this book! It's very tropey but in a way I expect YA and despite the tropes it is very emotionally mature which I think helps pulls off the tropes it does include.  I like the characters, the romance feels realistic, overall a good book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Homophobia, Death of parent, and Violence

Minor: Racism

lemonix_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

Wow! I will update this tomorrow

This was such a good book! I loved the main characters!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Blood, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Vomit

Moderate: Genocide, Xenophobia, Homophobia, and Racism

Minor: Cursing

Check trigger warnings first!

rickireadss's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

THIS WAS EVERYTHING!!!!!! i am slowly realizing i'm a fan of postapocalyptic fiction with a romance subplot, and this one delivered. i was so invested that i finished the audiobook in less than 24 hours. there were constantly scenes that had me on the edge of my seat and my heart racing because it felt like i was watching it on the screen. i would 1000% support this being adapted for tv!!!

⚠️: death, gun violence, violence, death of parent, death of family, homophobia, blood, injury/injury detail, racism, sexism

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Blood, Homophobia, Death, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent

Moderate: Racism, Animal death, and Sexism

kari__03's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia

neko_reads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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? Yes

4.25

This is the most adorable yet absolutely gut-wrenching book I've read in a while. 

I'm not gonna lie, when it started off talking about a "superflu", I was about to come out from covid and say NOPE I DO NOT NEED TO GO THROUGH THAT AGAIN. Thankfully, the whole population wipe out already happened, so no need to go through 2020 on steroids.

Now the characters. Andrew and Jamie. The romance. Need I say more?

****spoiler part***

i just have to say, how cruel of you, erik j brown, to do that to me at the end. to take my scene of perfection, my moment of confession, take it away because of some ABSOLUTE ASSHOLES (insert multiple other insults), and then DESTROY MY ENTIRE HEART NOT EVEN 10 PAGES LATER. I am flabbergasted, and I am destroyed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Homophobia, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Racism and Vomit

unlifeoftheparty's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Biphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Hate crime, Racism, Cultural appropriation, Death, Grief, Homophobia, and Violence

kassidyreads's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Gun violence

Moderate: Homophobia and Medical content

Minor: Vomit, Ableism, Racism, Religious bigotry, and Panic attacks/disorders

tinyjude's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

A story about two boys falling in love and trying to become better in a post-apocalyptic setting (no zombies, unfortunately for me). I ended up crying myself to sleep after the roller-coaster of those last 100 pages lol it was worth it because the story was funny, beautiful and hopeful. It provides a realistic but hopeful (vs the bleak view of other stories) interpretation of a world destroyed by a pandemic and the characters are lovely and complex. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Hate crime, Homophobia, Blood, Racism, Gun violence, and Religious bigotry

rowan_jess's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

Very sweet whilst also quite grim yet relevant at points. Andrew and Jamie are great narrators and whilst I wished we had spent more time on certain feelings and histories, and less repeating of already stated or implied descriptions and such,  I still found it a very entertaining  and refreshingly earnest read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma and Homophobia

Moderate: Terminal illness, Death, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Racism, Vomit, and Misogyny

Really still appropriate for teens, just post-apocolyptic from a pandemic and includes power hungry bigots at points. So long as they've had talks about/understand death and discrimination in the real world, and don't have sensitivity to pandemic-related trauma, it should be okay. Uplifting overall in spite of this.