Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

Mañana, y mañana, y mañana by Gabrielle Zevin

94 reviews

megmo's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad 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: Toxic relationship, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Medical content, Suicide, Car accident, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Cancer, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Xenophobia, Abortion, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Stalking, Terminal illness, and Vomit

Minor: Gore, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Blood, Drug use, Sexual content, and Xenophobia

inyourwords's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad medium-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

Moderate: Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Suicide, Pregnancy, Murder, Mental illness, Hate crime, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Gun violence, Death, Car accident, Xenophobia, Gaslighting, Grief, and Medical content

spcandybars's review against another edition

reflective relaxing medium-paced

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

3.75

Something about this book is deeply unsatisfying but it’s unsatisfying in a way that feels very true to life. The writing is simple and straightforward, the people you meet are unremarkable despite their high scale success, no one is very likable but everyone is very lovable. I feel like most people don’t know anyone exactly like these characters but they’re somehow mundane enough to feel like people you know. I found myself touched and heartbroken and hoping for less complicated feelings in the same way I desire it in my own life. It’s one of those boring types of stories I love. Somehow, for me, it hits the nail on the head too directly for me to rate it higher. There are so many decisions that can be made across a few decades and I can’t help myself in wanting these characters to walk different paths - to be happier. The ending is happy but all I could feel was all the lost time and it hurt in the way regret always  hurts. I don’t really like these people - I don’t think I like most people or think most people like each other - but I love them. I love them and they love each other and in a book that talks so much about video games I kept wishing there could be more options and that I could change the outcome of this story. 

I like it. I really like it. There are some minor things I take issue with but I imagine it’s a general consequence of reading characters who are not only older than you but feel older than you. It makes them harder to sympathize with when something ignorant comes up but also adds to the realism. There are a few things I legitimately dislike specifically because they feel, if not too convenient, too unnecessary, to push a break. Overall, I find myself in the interesting feeling of not necessarily wanting to revisit a story that I’ve finished but still wanting to imagine life from here for these characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Medical trauma, and Sexual content

Moderate: Suicide, Sexism, Homophobia, and Xenophobia

Minor: Grief

jajajanea's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? Yes

5.0

This is one of the best stories I’ve ever read in my life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Moderate: Cancer, Death, and Terminal illness

Minor: Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, and Sexism

triple_m's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

4.25

This book is incredibly well written and engaging. I love video games so I personally loved all of the descriptions of the games and the worlds they built throughout the story.

It’s rare to find a story with such REAL characters. Everyone makes mistakes, sometimes do fucked up and selfish acts, but at the of the day I understand everyone’s perspective even when they’re not right or wrong.

Overall I found Sadie to be rather underdeveloped in comparison to Sam. I also found her storyline with Dov to be really boring and cliche and just overall unnecessary to the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Car accident, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Xenophobia, Toxic relationship, and Mass/school shootings

rosalind's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Medical trauma, Suicide, Gun violence, Chronic illness, Cancer, and Death

Moderate: Medical content, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Blood, Violence, Mental illness, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, and Vomit

Minor: Toxic friendship, Abortion, Sexual content, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, and Pregnancy

sarzad's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-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 beautiful and amazing and wonderful. I’m writing my review at 3 am, crying onto the last page. It’s so good, everyone should read it. It’s about friendship and life and games and everything, really. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Murder, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Suicide, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Car accident

Moderate: Xenophobia, Sexual content, Drug use, and Vomit

there is a mass shooting

sevensableyes's review against another edition

reflective medium-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

3.75

It hurts to rate it beneath a 4 star, but I feel like the story didn't live up to the hype I've seen online. It's a good book, very entertaining, but it was frustrating. The characters were frustrating, their constant miscommunication and misrepresentation of each other was... frustrating.

I didn't really believe the friendship between Sam and Sadie, at least not beyond their college years.

Honestly, by the end of the book, I liked Sam more than Sadie. She held so much resentment towards Sam, and just didn't even try to talk to him about it? If she was so upset, why not just leave? Why drag everything on? I just don't get it.

This book was sold to me as a platonic-love story and a complicated friendship. But I could barely see the friendship, and

can it really be called platonic if Sam was in love with Sadie?

Fuck Dov. Why did Sadie keep in contact with that awful man? Why was his abuse used as a lighthearted joke between them? Why didn't he die?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Chronic illness, Car accident, Racism, Sexism, Death, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Misogyny, Death of parent, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Abortion

courtneyp's review against another edition

emotional reflective relaxing 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

3.75

Two of my favourite things are gaming and reading, so I had to pick this up. It lived up to the hype for sure! I love books that explore the intricacies of friendships over the course of life. The characters were frustrating at times, making poor decisions, being needlessly stubborn, and taking things too personally, but I think that's reflective of how real people often behave in relationships. We aren't the rational beings that we like to think ourselves to be. 

It lulled a bit for be in the middle, but I almost think it was purposeful so the ending hits even harder. It seemed to come out of almost nowhere, and I was bawling so hard my partner had to come check on me. 

Also just a note that I would have liked the weird grooming and sexual assault stuff to have been addressed more seriously instead of it being brushed off as "oh thats just how

Dov

  is, but I'm over it and we're all buddies now." I know that sort of reaction/self-justification can happen, but it would have been nice to see it handled with more care in the narrative as a whole.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Xenophobia and Sexual violence

lisa00's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Mental illness, Drug use, Car accident, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Mass/school shootings, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Vomit, Domestic abuse, Xenophobia, Homophobia, and Emotional abuse