Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

128 reviews

wilybooklover's review against another edition

dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Grief, Death, Toxic friendship, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Racial slurs, Cultural appropriation, Bullying, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Violence, Classism, Rape, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: War, Death of parent, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, and Islamophobia

zara89's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

Minor: Death of parent

imstephtacular's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Cultural appropriation, and Racism

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Medical content, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Death, Alcohol, Classism, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Bullying, and Cursing

Minor: Stalking, Ableism, Islamophobia, Homophobia, Suicide, Vomit, Body shaming, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual content

vedpears's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.25

So glad I read this. Very quick read and very meta. I haven't come across many books that do a good job of wanting me to keep reading about a main character that I loathe but R F Kuang did it! 
This is the first book by this author that I read but the voice is so strong and the story told so well, it has me very interested in their other works too, now. 
The only reason it isn't a "5 star" for me is that I wish we got to know a little more about Athena & the times we are going through Twitter/ IG/ GR feeds seems a wee bit too much and neared the point that it detracted from the story being told. 
I did skim through a couple other reviews that said Athena was clearly a stand in for the author and that was why they rated it so poorly, it really seems to underline exactly what the book was saying about Athena Liu and her detractors. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Toxic friendship, Panic attacks/disorders, Bullying, Death, and Colonisation

Moderate: Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

Minor: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Excrement, and Stalking

foldingthepage_kayleigh's review

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Racism, Toxic friendship, Sexual assault, Bullying, Death, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Grief, Racial slurs, and Suicidal thoughts

kitfkat's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Grief, Bullying, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Racism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Sexism, Trafficking, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Violence, Rape, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Racial slurs, and War

bookswithlauren's review

dark fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Toxic relationship, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Classism, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

choicepotatoes_20231023's review against another edition

tense medium-paced

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

3.5

3.50 - enjoyable
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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship

Moderate: Death and Racism

Minor: Rape, Alcohol, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Xenophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, and War

emilypolcyn's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny tense fast-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

5.0

kuang does an excellent job creating a truly deeply unlikable character who still feels so real and grounded and convinced by her own logic. like she sucks so hard but kuang didn't make a strawman -- she built a real, convincing person and then eviscerated her. this was like watching a car crash and not being able to look away.

i took this ebook on the treadmill with me and accidentally stayed at the gym for two full hours. which was also great motivation because i felt like i was running away from june, which made me much faster

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Death, Cultural appropriation, and Racism

Moderate: Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, and Toxic friendship

qrschulte's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

A scathing indictment of the publishing industry, full of the least likable characters I’ve ever read. My favorite part was the examination of jealousy in the first chapter. Very validating due to my pregnancy loss journey. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Bullying, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Mental illness, Xenophobia, Death, Emotional abuse, Racism, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Racial slurs, Sexism, Rape, and Sexual violence

Minor: Drug use and War