Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

52 reviews

melaniegrace91's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

5.0

This book is a 10/10 for me. It’s so well written, and the characters and plot are perfectly developed. The struggle of the story is directly related to the black experience in the world and especially in contemporary America. This is a story anyone of any age or background could enjoy and learn from. I am excited to read the sequel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Violence, and Gore

francisca_pitterle's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-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: Death, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Hate crime, and Death of parent

Moderate: Blood

desiderium_incarnate's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.75

"I won't let your ignorance silence my pain."

1. Please read the authors note, if you've read the story. 
2. This was fascinating, the story and it's characters took so many turns in their character development. It all made sense though. There was a lot of hurt and grief in a few days storyline. The characters also had noticeable trauma, and all handled it differently, which is very good writing, because I've also read books where that was completely disregarded. So all in all worth the read, I think it's better to read it not spread out over months though. 
3. Crooked Kingdom vibes at times. 

"Everyone else feels like being caught in the rain. You're the whole tsunami." 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery, Child death, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Murder, Alcohol, Blood, Cancer, Confinement, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, War, Classism, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and Death

macmannwood's review against another edition

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

5.0

i think that daughters should get to kill their abusive fathers more often

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Sexual assault, Self harm, Racial slurs, Violence, Racism, Genocide, Gore, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Murder, Hate crime, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, Blood, Colonisation, Death of parent, Trafficking, and Suicidal thoughts

oliviabrcka's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

Graphic: Hate crime and Genocide

mjscooke's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

Living in a world that hates what her bloodline could be and taxes her very existence, Zélie find herself in an epic adventure that could change not only her life but the lives of every potential Magi in Orisha. Tomi Adeyemi weaves real world emotion and pain seamlessly into her beautifully crafted fantastical world with such heart and soul that I found my own breaking while empathising with the deep, rich characters. I’m Interested to see where they end up next. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Blood, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Violence, and Grief

caleb_makes's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Hate crime, Death, Genocide, Classism, Grief, Racism, and War

alyssasaurus's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, War, Child death, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Racism, Racial slurs, and Torture

aaopre's review against another edition

This book had a really enjoyable beginning.

The world building was pretty in-depth, as well as the magic system. The exposition wasn't too much or too little. Nor was the magic system difficult to understand. The main character, Zelie, is also well crafted. Her past does not leave her but considering what happened, how could it?

Now, when Amari is introduced I'm not a fan of her character, even when I stopped I wasn't. Did her character grow? Yes! Was it at the expense of many lives... also yes.

I just didn't like how it took Binta, her divîner servant and best friend, to be killed for using magic to get her to act. I wondered, if Binta wasn't killed, would she still do all this? Or would she continue to roam the castle.

I understand that it isn't Amari's fault divîners/maji are punished but I didn't like how it took that incident to make her realize how wrong everything is.

And Inan.... I never liked Inan, even with his "growth" he annoyed me.

him being maji was surprising, but near the book when the crew enter the Gombe forest I was surprised how adamant he was to come along with them. Like he wasn't calling for the genocide of all maji but now he has a change of heart because he saw the main characters mom get brutally killed, wow good for you Inan! the hundred of other maji lives weren't enough to move him but now it does because he likes Zelie....

anyway...

This book wasn't for me but I'm sure other people will like it, especially if you love magic and good fantasy worldbuilding.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime and Genocide

Minor: Blood

theolivetree's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, Hate crime, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault, Child death, Death of parent, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Hate crime, Murder, Slavery, Racism, and Racial slurs