Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

20 reviews

dianaschmidty's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Racism, Child death, Death, Dementia, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Self harm

theworldof11's review

mysterious tense fast-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Grief

Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, and Addiction

Minor: Self harm

floraforlora's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

Very white

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Racism, Toxic relationship, and Xenophobia

Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, and Body shaming

renellen_x's review

adventurous emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Self harm

Minor: Animal death, Xenophobia, and Death

anasc007's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Xenophobia

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

newtleg's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

3.25

i guessed the end pretty early on. i also find cadence kind of... irritating

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Drug abuse, Medical content, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Xenophobia

inglebelle's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Drug use

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, and Xenophobia

jonsnowsmanbun's review

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.25

„ One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.“

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Xenophobia, Death, Grief, Racism, Animal death, and Child death

Moderate: Dementia and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Cancer

its_madi's review

reflective slow-paced

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

1.0

Wow, that was… a lot of nothing. Like… so much nothing. Universe, when I said I wanted a short light read, I didn’t mean the epitome of “no thoughts head empty”.

First off, none of the characters have any charm or personality at all. They are from a rich family and they are done with their family's materialistic ways. That’s it. That is the extent of their personalities. Plus all of their interactions are just so weird? They say things like

”I’m going to ask you about the sexual intercourse later,” I warn her.”

and

“I have to act like everything’s okay until I can find a troll. Then I’ll kill him to death and get my normal feet back.”

They also used the word “suboptimal” a lot, and it was played off as an inside joke, but it was never really explained why? I think the author was trying to write some quirky dialogue, and it might have worked in another novel, but here it just fell on its face because I was already annoyed with its characters.

Also, unless I’m missing something, aren’t Gat and Johnny step brothers? And Cadence and Johnny are cousins? So that would make Gat and Cadence related right? 

😳. 🤮.

The plot is also really boring. The MC Cadence has amnesia, and she’s trying to figure out what happened in the summer that she was 15. But she does absolutely NOTHING to solve any of this. She even knows that something is up, because she remarks that people keep lying to her, but she doesn’t even try to investigate it? At all? All she does is walk around the island until she gets a memory, and it’s as boring as it sounds.

And the plot twist was, fine I guess? I will give it credit that I didn’t see it coming, and thinking back it was foreshadowed quite a bit (the mom telling Cadence to hang out with the Littles, having her eat with the Littles and not with the Liars. etc.), but I didn’t care enough about these characters to care that they died. I was more upset about the dogs.

Now this is probably one of my least hated 1 star books, because I didn’t actively hate anything (except for the GatXCadence relationship). But that’s just the problem. I didn’t hate anything because there was nothing there at all. This was just an empty book. If a short read and a rich family’s drama and an unreliable narrator sounds great to you, by all means take a look. But it just wasn’t for me.

1/5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism and Xenophobia

mndy's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

honestly kind of expected the ending; i predicted that (only) gat died in the fire and that his presence was cady hallucinating.

nonetheless, i really enjoyed reading this book. although it was a bit slow and took a while to get to the plot twist, it is understandable that it was written that way. cady is trying to figure out things for herself and the slow pace takes us with her. 

i love the various metaphors throughout the story. the word choice was fitting to the mood and setting. a lot of the sentences really got to the point as well. very beautiful writing in terms of describing pain and grief.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death and Death

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Dementia, Drug use, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, and Xenophobia