Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi

6 reviews

jenna_justi2004's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cancer, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Murder, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Colonisation, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Terminal illness, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Slavery, Toxic relationship, War, Alcohol, Death of parent, Grief, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Gore, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Cursing, Torture, Confinement, Drug use, Physical abuse, and Suicide attempt

puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Suicide attempt, Violence, Gun violence, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Murder, Police brutality, and Racism

Moderate: Racial slurs, Blood, Cancer, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Cursing, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, and Misogyny

Minor: Drug use and Sexual violence

danajoy's review against another edition

challenging dark tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Gun violence, Police brutality, Racism, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Cursing, and Child death

booksthatburn's review

 It’s told in chunks, creating at feeling of jagged edges and snippets of a story. I liked it at first and then got to the

back-to-back detailed descriptions of birth and a stillbirth/miscarriage

, which is a hard no for me. Even if the rest of the book is fine I need to stop. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Blood, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Cursing, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Gun violence, Violence, Police brutality, Animal death, Death, and Child death

memoriast's review

challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

This book left me simmering with anger and rage and indignance and despair, but in a way that I think I needed. Like Sarah Gailey said on the cover, it "comes at you full speed with the brake line cut". It leaves my heart heavy and lights a fire in it at the same time. It is definitely not a light read and please heed the content warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Confinement, Death of parent, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcohol, Cancer, and Rape

alas_aly's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I really struggle because I genuinely don't like books that are mostly about how bad everything is. Ugh, this is actually really hard to define. I can appreciate a book about a person and the difficulties that they might go through because of how bad everything is. I just struggle with stories that forefront the badness at the expense of the characters which I think this book did. Who were Kevin and Ella? They were empathetic, smart, angry, and black. That didn't feel like enough to me and I was always distant from them as characters. 
That being said, its not wrong. We do live in a world where violence is perpetrated on Black people constantly. You can't individualize yourself out of it by being good or learning to see what is good about your life. I believe that the system is bad and that violence may be the answer to that. I guess I just don't love reading about it?
The writing was excellent. It was vivid like this was a movie being told to you very well. I could clearly picture everything that was happening in the story. I think that even if the characters weren't super well-realized, the archetypes were very clear to me. I think their motivations were spot - on and clear. 
This leaves me in a somewhat muddy place. Did I like this book? I don't think so. Or not very much. Is it a good book? I think it is even if it wasn't right for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, Police brutality, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, and Child death

Moderate: Cursing, Grief, Gun violence, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness