Reviews tagging 'Racism'

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton

171 reviews

neckili's review against another edition

medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racism, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Drug abuse and Addiction

Minor: Sexual harassment

mxbenjaminrose's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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

This book is a masterpiece of contemporary/near historical fiction. The characters feel like they really were fixtures of the 70s music scene. The world of the book felt amazingly grounded in reality. Using the point of view of a journalist writing a history for the novel's voice was genius and worked perfectly for the story she meant to tell. 

Listening to the audiobook was an added bonus, as it was read by a full cast of actors! It really helped bring it to life. 

Without saying much about the plot, the voice of this novel, and the book-in-a-book's protagonist, were the perfect mixture of likeable heroes that you want root for and multidimensional, flawed humans. 

This hit all the marks for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Racial slurs, Drug abuse, and Violence

Minor: Murder and Sexual harassment

courtneyhollyy's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racism, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Racial slurs

Minor: Addiction, Infidelity, and Misogyny

cassiebartelme's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-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? It's complicated

4.25

This was a very good read - the author did a wonderful job weaving together fictional artists and people with real ones. More than a few times I had to remind myself not to google events in the book - I wanted to hear the songs see the infamous photograph and watch the concerts described. Really good- I’d absolutely recommend this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racism, and Racial slurs

frenandjen's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective 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: Racism, Death, and Hate crime

Minor: Infidelity, Drug abuse, Alcohol, Death of parent, Addiction, Violence, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Grief, Gaslighting, and Drug use

bxcvi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Death

Minor: Drug use, Violence, Grief, and Drug abuse

annabulkowski's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Classism, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Alcoholism, Cursing, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Slavery, Xenophobia, Death, Misogyny, Drug use, Gaslighting, Grief, Addiction, Hate crime, Mental illness, and Racism

loesm's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Toxic friendship, Racial slurs, Racism, Physical abuse, Violence, and Murder

sammies_shelf's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Racism

Moderate: Racial slurs and Sexism

Minor: Death of parent

mandireads's review against another edition

emotional

3.0

I liked this alright! I liked the interview style it was told in — and I loved that the audiobook had a full cast. It really brought the characters to life. I liked that it spanned decades and we got to see Opal & Nev from the beginning all the way through to the end. I really enjoyed the social, cultural, and political commentaries that weaves throughout the book. It made it all feel very real. I had to regularly remind myself this was a fiction novel!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Racial slurs, Hate crime, and Racism