Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Reputation by Lex Croucher

67 reviews

bunterobstkorb's review against another edition

funny lighthearted 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: Sexual assault and Alcoholism

Moderate: Racism, Classism, Grief, Rape, Alcohol, and Addiction

happysami's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug use, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Slavery and Racism

lottsofplots's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Drug use, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual harassment

Minor: Racism and Death of parent

binevolentbookworm's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Classism, Drug use, and Sexual violence

Minor: Death of parent, Death, and Slavery

jackiepreston's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny tense 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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Classism, Drug use, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, and Vomit

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Homophobia, Death, Racism, Domestic abuse, Animal death, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Slavery

emilo's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

Graphic: Sexual assault and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Racism, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Rape and Homophobia

stitchbooks22's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Death of parent, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Blood, Bullying, Classism, Death, Racism, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual harassment

m_esme_rized_by_books's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This book took me a long time to read, but on reflection, I think that is mostly down to the fact that it's in a writing style I am not used to reading. It's historical fiction, which I have not read much of until now, and after reading this book I am keen to give more of this genre a try! I enjoyed the characters and I felt like I knew them well by the end of the book, I especially loved how complex they were. I loved the humour that brought me a few unexpected and genuine laugh-out-loud moments throughout the story. It did take me a little bit to really get into the world and setting of the book, but after I was about halfway through the book, I got really invested, and the pacing really picked up for me in the second half. It's a solid story I can see myself re-reading in years to come, and I'm looking forward to reading more books in this style by the same author (and other authors too)! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Drug use, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Death of parent and Racism

schneevongestern's review against another edition

funny 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

5.0

It took me a little while to get started, but ended up really enjoying this. It feels a bit like if Mean Girls was set in the Regency era; similar elements of coming of age, friendship cliques etc. but with regency era societal norms.

The latter half of the book is definitely a lot more fast-paced than the first. I went from swooning over a budding romance to being heartbroken in one chapter at some point.

Definitely check the TW before reading, the book has themes of sex, sexulity, and consent. As such there are allusions to SA. That said, as someone sensitive to those themes, I feel it was well-handled.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Addiction, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Homophobia, and Racism

defsbisexual's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Racism