Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

49 reviews

bruhbruh's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racial slurs, Lesbophobia, and Police brutality

Moderate: Xenophobia, Outing, War, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, and Deportation

Minor: Religious bigotry

asa_s_16's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Racism, and Outing

Moderate: Sexism and Xenophobia

hannahrogers's review

emotional hopeful informative 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Medical content, Lesbophobia, War, Xenophobia, Toxic friendship, Racism, Racial slurs, Infertility, Colonisation, Homophobia, and Alcohol

Moderate: Deportation, Gaslighting, Bullying, Hate crime, War, Cursing, Genocide, Sexism, Classism, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Grief, Misogyny, Outing, and Vomit

kshertz's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective 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 don’t give a lot of 5 star ratings. But I am obsessed with this book. It’s brilliant. The time in San Francisco when gay clubs were being closed. Communism rumors were everywhere with McCarthyism. The Chinese were under suspicion and they’re living in Chinatown. All of that setting the stage for a young girl coming of age and realizing she’s a lesbian. The feelings were so authentic and felt so real to me. The racism of the time. The wonder of finding people like you. The tug to feel authentic vs. being shunned by your family and your community. I just loved every page. Definitely one of my favorites this year!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Colonisation, Homophobia, Violence, Bullying, Hate crime, Outing, Body shaming, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, Deportation, Gaslighting, Lesbophobia, Racism, Sexual content, and War

ronniek's review

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Outing

narbine's review

emotional medium-paced

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

4.25

So much to relate to as a young queer kid figuring it out. Especially as a child of an immigrant who is not white.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Police brutality, Sexism, Bullying, Hate crime, Cursing, and Misogyny

lisa_m's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

This was an interesting book. It deals with important topics and I especially enjoyed the authors notes at the end of the book.
There she writes about lesbian culture and especially the role Asian-American and other marginalised groups played. 

Sadly the story just didn't grip me. I really wanted to love this book but I didn't. I liked the story and I think it's a really important one to tell. It was just not a very enjoyable read for me.

I guess I just don't want to read about queer people being seen as abnormal and gross. I get that at the time that was normal but it still just made me uncomfortable and mad.
Also the author uses some words that made me uncomfortable because of their negative connotations. She also addresses this at the end of the book and that she used those words because it's what would have been used at the time.

I also didn't really connect to any of the characters. They all felt a bit shallow and like just a way to portrait the story. If I liked the characters more I might have been able to overlook the rest..

Edit:
For me it was probably a 2 star read. I did not enjoy it and the weird terms like calling the Asian protagonist 'china doll' multiple times just made me uncomfortable. I do think that this book is important though. It is not catered towards me and I cannot identify with the mc very much but maybe I'm just not meant to and that's okay. There are so many books written about girls I can identify with extremely well so I don't think that this is a bad book just because it's not for me. Actually I would maybe even recommend this to a very niche group of people. Queer people (of colour) with historical interests or interest in the LGBTQ movement.
For those reasons I have decided to give this book 3 stars instead of the 2 it was for me. it would just feel unfair and not do this book justice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Cultural appropriation, Deportation, Hate crime, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Alcohol, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Miscarriage, Outing, Police brutality, Bullying, Confinement, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, and War

lazyfox's review

emotional inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Racial slurs, Homophobia, and Hate crime

Minor: Sexual content

helena_v12's review

emotional sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Homophobia, and Hate crime

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Sexual harassment

123urmom's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

Amazing book!! made me cry, laugh, blush, giggle and kick my feet, it kept me on my toes. I loved learning about a side of history not really taught about in schools. The characters are written so well and oh my gosh so is the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Toxic friendship, and Racism

Moderate: Hate crime and Police brutality

Time-period accurate homophobia and racism