Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Carmilla - Audible Performance by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

133 reviews

ominousspectre's review against another edition

4.0

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Huh... apparently men are capable of writing toxic yuri

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism

lexybexy's review against another edition

3.5

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexism, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Ableism, Racial slurs, Racism

takarakeireads's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I highly recommend this version of Carmilla edited by Carmen Maria Machado who provides much needed historical context in the introduction and with footnotes throughout. It's also a beautiful edition with a few illustrations.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Racism, Sexual content

sympatheticdroid's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Sometimes its absurdity made it absolutely hilarious, but I think overall it's more about the dark romantic undertones than the funnies. The dark romantic undertones are between this weirdo Carmilla and this really sad girl Laura, both who you can interpret in a billion different ways. There's a lot of speculating to be done while reading, and even more to be done after you're finished. The length is short, it's in the public domain and the pacing is lightning quick so there's really not much reason to avoid reading it if you're at all interested in vampires, lesbians, lesbian vampires, historical queer fiction and/or historical fiction featuring women.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting

Minor: Child death, Racism

Racism is minor the same way your seemingly okay acquaintance one day walking up to you, slapping you in the face and never referencing or repeating the offense would be a minor assault. To be explicit, a handful of unnamed brown characters show up as the servants of mysterious white women characters. The description in the book and commentary of other white characters paints these brown characters as being ugly and evil, and that is all the characterization they are given. It seems to reflect the views of the author. Once that scene ends you only ever see similar characters one more time as background characters in a flashback and there's no more overt racism anywhere in the book. I honestly highly recommend this novel, but I don't want anyone to not expect the racism. Every other warning is just standard vampire stuff.

f18's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Violence

Minor: Racism, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

probable hypnosis

hannahduda's review against another edition

4.5

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, Toxic friendship

o3tri's review against another edition

2.0

dark

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism

tessalexandra's review against another edition

2.0

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Gore, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Antisemitism, Lesbophobia

Minor: Slavery, Suicide

aweirdlookingdog's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, Xenophobia

maddramaqueen's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic