Reviews tagging 'Islamophobia'

The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson

7 reviews

hannahpings's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

4.25

a little miracle of a book. wilson does something with pacing and expectation here that i can't even begin to articulate, but is so beautifully representative of the larger point of the bird king i can't help but marvel at it. like hassan's maps, short passages contain entire odysseys in themselves, while long ones are easily (and quickly!) traversable. its ending is deceptively simple and beautiful and heartbreaking with a single, final image that feels like it's going to be burned in my head forever. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Torture, Violence, War, Religious bigotry, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, Body horror, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Islamophobia, Sexual content, Blood, and Grief

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, and Medical content

hspfost's review against another edition

reflective sad 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

3.5

I loved the characters, the setting, and the writing, but the plot didn’t quite land for me. Also,

Gwennec’s death was fully unnecessary imo.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery, Torture, and Islamophobia

Minor: Rape

alex_wordweaver's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful 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? Yes

4.0

A spiritual prequel to Alif the Unseen. Missed you, Vikram, you glorious bastard. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Minor: Deportation, Islamophobia, Death, Religious bigotry, Antisemitism, Homophobia, and Slavery

stacyaj's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Rape

kmtaylor002's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence, Torture, Hate crime, Homophobia, Blood, Colonisation, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Islamophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and War

Minor: Infertility

skrulls's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective 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: Death, Racism, Gore, Violence, Rape, Religious bigotry, Grief, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Genocide, Slavery, Islamophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, and War

Minor: Animal cruelty, Alcohol, Animal death, Antisemitism, and Torture

thenexthing's review

adventurous dark hopeful tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.5

team! family! home! (families of choice having a very bad time but

getting a mostly-hopeful ending

is my jam )

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Religious bigotry, and Death

Moderate: Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Homophobia, Trafficking, Slavery, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Animal death

when the main character is a concubine born into slavery, their bff is a magic-user/divine seer and the plot is driven by the Spanish Inquisition, people are not going to have a great time