Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

40 reviews

amandas_bookshelf's review against another edition

2.0

informative slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Homophobia, Racism, Transphobia, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Abortion

rainieschulte's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Transphobia, Antisemitism, Murder, Classism

d_ae's review against another edition

2.25

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Police brutality

booksbeyondthebinary's review against another edition

4.0

informative mysterious tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Murder

Moderate: Transphobia

Minor: Gun violence

ireadinbed's review against another edition

4.5

emotional funny reflective slow-paced

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I really appreciated the writing style and the slow rambling way the author led us through the city and the story. 

I found the murder that centers a large part of the story incidental to me. I liked to read the book a chapter at a time, just little vignettes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Transphobia

Moderate: Gun violence, Hate crime, Murder

anna_hepworth's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 27%

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So, I was not entirely sure that this book was for me at the outset, when it was labelled 'a non-fiction novel', or some other malarkey. What I wasn't expecting was that the narrative voice would dislike all the characters, and yet not pass judgment on racism, dubious use of nazi paraphenalia / memorabilia (and yes, it was called memorabilia, and I should have stopped at that point), or the ongoing destruction caused by a conman. 

I could put up with the rambling narrative, with each chapter only loosely linked to the others. I probably could have dealt with the range of shady characters. I could accept the implied level of self-loathing of the narrator, even if it made me decidedly uncomfortable. 

But the ongoing racism was starting to wear, and the introduction of Chablis, who is both Black and trans was the point that I was asking myself why I was reading this. Up to a point, Chablis was entirely plausible. But referring to their cis female friend as a 'real girl' and then presenting attitudes to Black men as angry and violent made me realise that I had no desire to be reading this story, and 'realism' (or whatever the descriptor was) be damned, this book wasn't worth reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism

Moderate: Gun violence, Transphobia

ginnyb412's review against another edition

4.0

dark informative mysterious tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Moderate: Homophobia

marisol1990's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Murder, Alcohol, Classism

sjduncan's review against another edition

3.75

dark mysterious medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Murder, Classism

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Antisemitism, Murder, Outing, Alcohol, Colonisation, Classism

thomas_the_capricorn's review against another edition

4.0

dark informative mysterious medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gun violence

Moderate: Sexual content, Alcohol