Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Carmilla - Audible Performance by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

134 reviews

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Dreamy and extremely gothic. Some of the luster and horror has been lost with modern knowledge and tropes, but fascinatingly compassionate to even its monsters.

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mysterious relaxing fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: N/A
Diverse cast of characters: No

The ending was a bit frustrating, which is really what's dragging the rating. Otherwise, the prose was beautiful and the atmosphere was <33

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dark tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Ce fut un livre intéressant. Mais j’avoue que je m’attendais a plus… tout d’abord je me disais que les personnages seraient plus âgées mais aussi qu’il y aurait plus de… plus quoi. Plus de lesbianisme, plus de tension, plus de spice, plus de leaning… bref plus. 

Je m’exprime très bien okay! 

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dark mysterious medium-paced

Almost any other character would have made a better narrator for this story, but at least this way we got lesbians 🤷🏽

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adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: Complicated

The original lesbian vampire. very mixed feelings. some parts were a little underdeveloped and others were repetitive.


there were some lines that just … agh excellent, like:

“I live in you; and you would die for me, I love you so.” 

It’s visceral and emotive and really clever foreshadowing. I just left wishing there was more time spent on Carmilla and Laura themselves. The ending chapters felt a bit anticlimactic. Also read critically, of course, because there’s definitely a bit of “girl is in love w girl BECAUSE she’s a monster” 


BUT its worth reading. Some of the descriptions are genuinely unsettling, not because of anything graphic or gory, just from the sense of being violated. Also excellent foreshaddowing.

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dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character

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adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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dark

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dark mysterious fast-paced

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dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

one of my favourite gothic novels i've ever read.
absolutely loved the fact that it is gay. but not so much the casual racist comments here and there. 

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