Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

17 reviews

rwindemuller's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

jenmeyers's review

adventurous emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.75

Slow and dragging. This story spans >25 years and is not just simple mystery or coming of age. It show the intertwined nature of small town lives and secrets over decades, with very little explicit detail just a lot of broad strokes about key points. Tries to be tragic and show facets of choices and consequences. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Kidnapping, and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Animal death, Abortion, and Pregnancy

alysbookclub's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I'm pretty confident that this is the most I've ever cried reading a book. The story and writing are extremely good, the book is immersive, I was hooked and needed to know how things played out. This was a book club pick and so I know I wouldn't have read it on my own and appreciate having something outside my regular books - however I hate getting so emotional while reading so it just wasn't quite 5 stars for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Minor: Rape and Death of parent

paronomaniac's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Religious bigotry, Abortion, and Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Gun violence and Rape

birdie_traywick's review

adventurous dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Abortion

Moderate: Religious bigotry

kayla_reads94's review against another edition

emotional inspiring mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Abortion, and Murder

undersea's review

challenging dark funny sad slow-paced

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

3.5

I enjoyed the story and the scope of this book. I enjoy stories with this type of sweeping timeline & interesting characters with some mystery involved. That said, I have issues. 

First of all the writing style never really clicked with me, though I did get used to it over 600 pages 🙄 The short chapters are helpful but there are detailed, luxurious descriptions of landscapes & then key plot elements

like Saint’s pregnancy & labor

that are literally skipped over in order to create a “twist” later on.  Cliff hangers are really done a disservice to the momentum, leaving one character’s story line hanging for “anticipation” only to have it kind of glazed over and summarized when we finally come back to it. 

Also, possibly because of the writing style or the length, when new mysteries would pop up I would literally sigh. I was just tired. It felt emotionally manipulative. 

I will say, the chosen family that is built in this book is truly wonderful. It might be what kept me going most through 600 pages of Patch. 

Are we supposed to like Patch? I feel empathy for him for sure, but the entire book is basically saying: let men act however they need to act, support them no matter what, do the actual work of hunting down a serial killer while he paints & searches backwards for victims families instead of trying to prevent more people from becoming victims, & because of that ladies, you’ll get all the love & thanks you deserve which is none. Literally every woman in this story is there in support of Patch & he gives them nothing. Saint & Misty & Norma & Charlotte & even Sammy are so amazing & interesting, but we are only treated to them as they relate to and support Patch with this undying, unending support. That is never, not once returned. Unless you count killing which just takes Patch further from them.

This is why I don’t read male authors much😒

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Religious bigotry, and Death of parent

Minor: Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, and Abortion

chariswanken's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cancer

readbygillian's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Murder, and Classism

jalexpulliamkepler's review

dark mysterious sad slow-paced

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

3.0

When it’s good, it’s great. Most of the time, it’s boring.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Death, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Animal death and War