Reviews tagging 'Racism'

The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

27 reviews

allisoncc's review

emotional hopeful inspiring 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? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Islamophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Dysphoria, and Medical content

Moderate: Outing, Miscarriage, War, Racism, Pregnancy, Animal death, and Dementia

Minor: Chronic illness

lprongs's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Racism, Death of parent, Grief, Sexism, Child death, Body horror, and Islamophobia

Moderate: Colonisation and Transphobia

Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual content

jennswan's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Dysphoria, Grief, Transphobia, Racism, Misogyny, Hate crime, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Sexual assault

rhi_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Dysphoria

Minor: Racism, Homophobia, Islamophobia, and Lesbophobia

reading_mermaid's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

This is an incredible book, fullfullfull of emotion and heartache and hope and community. 

It is incredibly well written and laid out with endearing, lovable characters. I so highly recommend it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Racism, Death of parent, Dysphoria, and Islamophobia

Minor: Hate crime and Sexual harassment

displacedcactus's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-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

This book has a very slow start, but once I got into it, I was really sucked into the dual timelines and finding the parallels and connections between them. It's definitely literary in its scope and tone, but with some fantastic elements. It's a bit of a ghost story, but in a sad way rather than a scary way. It's a bit of a coming of age story, a reminder that sometimes we don't get the chance to truly come into ourselves until sometime in adulthood. It's about family, both blood and chosen. And it's also about birds and art and race and gender and religion and so many important things.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Dysphoria

Moderate: Homophobia, Islamophobia, Animal death, Death of parent, Transphobia, Sexism, and Racism

The main character is frequently misgendered, since he is not "out" for most of the book, but his deadname never appears on the page. Most of the transphobia is of the "I don't get it" sort from clueless but loving family members, rather than acts of hate and violence. The story also deals with the displacement of immigrant communities to make way for "progress" in the form of infrastructure that "has" to run through their neighborhoods.

dananana's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Dysphoria, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Dementia, Transphobia, and Racism

siriface's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Racism, Death of parent, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

madscientistcat's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Islamophobia, Racism, Transphobia, Death of parent, and Xenophobia

noah_silver's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

I liked the two interwoven timelines, the development and growth of the two main characters & their different voices, the different kinds of queerness coming up during the story - and the focus on & omnipresence of birds in the lives of the characters.
However, at some points I found it a bit slow and am still confused about some turns of the story. It might be due to listening to it as an audio book and maybe not catching everything. I was also not completely convinced of the audio book narrator's styles.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Islamophobia, Racism, Animal death, Grief, Death of parent, and Dysphoria

Minor: Miscarriage, Homophobia, Child death, Transphobia, and War

Description of menstruation; gyn appointment