Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Out by Natsuo Kirino

12 reviews

cabrerajackey's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Murder, Misogyny, Gore, Torture, Stalking, Rape, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Racism, Infidelity, Domestic abuse, and Trafficking

poubelleboi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Beh, che dire. “Le quattro casalinghe di Tokyo” non si fa mettere giù. Mentre non lo leggevo fantasticavo di starlo leggendo e mentre lo leggevo non volevo smettere. Direi che quello che mi ha tenuto attaccato è stata la facilità con cui ci si può rispecchiare nei personaggi principali, le quattro casalinghe. Sono persone tutto sommato regolari con problemi che molti hanno ma all’improvviso vengono risucchiate in una situazione assolutamente straordinaria che mi ha fatto chiedere cosa farei io al loro posto. E poi è anche semplicemente intrattenente.

Il finale… è strano. Non capisco le motivazioni di Masako per aver improvvisamente cambiato opinione e sentimenti su Satake. La mia interpretazione è che si è accorta che entrambi cercavano la libertà e si è sentita vicina a lui per questo. Ma pensavo che la libertà cercata da Masako fosse la libertà di vivere la sua vita lasciandosi alle spalle una famiglia di cui non si sentiva più parte, che mi sembra ben diversa dalla libertà di Satake di possedere e uccidere donne. A meno che Masako non anelasse a una libertà dalla morale, che potrebbe anche essere, considerato che ha preso al volo la prima occasione per fare qualcosa di illegale. Non so, opinioni?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual violence, Chronic illness, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Sexual assault, Blood, Body horror, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Stalking, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, and Misogyny

Minor: Abandonment, Xenophobia, Racism, and Fire/Fire injury

celia_hf's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

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

1.0

I remember this book having great reviews 10 years ago and I feel the time has switch from true crime and detailing grusome scenes to understanding that voyerarism is different that empathy and understanding horrible things happen. This book left me feel uncomfortable and voyeuristic in several scenes.
I did find the description on Japanese culture extrememly interesting as well as discussing the difficult social and economic challenges women face in Japan but this message was over shaddow by the dark and twisted scenes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, and Rape

Moderate: Racism

perkyanda's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

This one was hard to rate because I really loved a lot of it…And then it went off the rails and had

this horrible weird ending that didn’t seem to fit with the whole beginning part of examining female interpersonal relationships and what can drive normal people to commit gruesome crimes. Like sexual Siam was a smaller theme earlier so I guess it’s not shocking that’s where it went, we saw it in multiple characters early on, I wasn’t expecting it to be the denouement.||

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Excrement, Gore, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Dementia, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Classism, Sexism, Toxic friendship, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Torture, Violence, Misogyny, Murder, and Sexual content

enchantressreads's review

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Body horror, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Death, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Racism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual harassment, and Pedophilia

celbl8o's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Torture, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Racism, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Xenophobia, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Grief, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Rape, and Sexual content

alexalily's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Alcohol, Cursing, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Racism

Minor: Death of parent, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, and Fatphobia

nataliemaria's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Racism, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Murder, Rape, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Blood

rknitss's review

challenging dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

Wow ok. so rating is for quality of writing and story crafting, not my enjoyment of the read. I took a very long time (for me) to trudge through this very bad time. The broad strokes are....kinda almost what was advertised to me, IE: some ladies help their friend hide a body and end up Mister Magooing their way into being the go-to-cleaners for the mob. But the Tone. My dude. This is a dark, angry, brooding novel. This novel reflects heavily on the misery and futility of living in patriarchal capitalist society as a woman, or a foreigner, or middle aged person, or a single mother.
This is one of very few novels I've read that has almost no character development whatsoever. The characters don't change, you just get a far better idea later on of what causes them to make the decisions that they do.
Not for the faint of heart. Major trigger warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Murder, Racism, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Misogyny, and Domestic abuse

zozo9's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Torture, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Murder, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Racism and Adult/minor relationship