Reviews tagging 'Racism'

North American Lake Monsters: Stories by Nathan Ballingrud

8 reviews

alafrizr's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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

Upsetting and beautiful

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Child death, Grief, Racism, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Dementia, Antisemitism, Fire/Fire injury, and Gun violence

snewgoblin's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Gore, Blood, Animal death, and Racial slurs

nicekweenreads's review against another edition

dark tense 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

1.5

I was pretty disappointed in this anthology to be honest. Despite all of the recommendations for this boom, I found most of the short stories to be boring. In fact, I can only recommend 4 of the 9 with only 1 being good enough to rate it over 3/5. The fact that the book doesn't start with any of these stories, but arguably the worst ones (You Go Where It Takes You, S.S, Wild Acres) would turn off many a reader. 

While some of the stories are okay, there is a lot of disappointment in the endings of every single one. There is a pattern for the stories of a lot of build up only for the rising action / climax to happen on the last page. It's very unsatisfying. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Suicide

Moderate: Abandonment and Racism

bluemc's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Suicide

Minor: Racism

alexhaydon's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Racism, Violence, Abandonment, Gore, and Confinement

shanny1029's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Suicide

Moderate: Death, Murder, Medical trauma, and Cannibalism

knighteb's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal death, and Racism

Moderate: Drug use

etosaurus's review against another edition

dark mysterious

• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Antisemitism, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Racism, Self harm, and Suicide