Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

15 reviews

theinkwyrm'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
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

What a beautiful and potent book. While I wasn’t a huge fan of the incest angle, Osita and Vivek/Nnemdi’s love just feels very pure. Emezi has a very distinctive way of writing that I really enjoyed, especially their unapologetic mixing of African languages and English. I kind of wish that they hadn’t jumped around so much in the timeline (especially in the second half), as it made it kind of confusing, but contextual clues are enough to keep readers oriented in the right timeline so it ended up working out surprisingly well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest

Moderate: Transphobia and Blood

Minor: Homophobia, Violence, and Xenophobia

lena_loves_reading's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

3.5

The amazing writing made me want to rate it higher but when it comes to the story I would've enjoyed a bit more character development of Vivek.

Plus, having a relationship with a cousin is a thing in some cultures and I can get over that but referring to him as brother at the same time is just hella weird.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Homophobia, and Incest

Moderate: Blood and Religious bigotry

Minor: Sexual assault, Rape, and Xenophobia

puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

reflective sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Grief, Homophobia, Incest, Misogyny, Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual content, and Transphobia

Moderate: Bullying, Death of parent, Xenophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

peachani's review

challenging emotional mysterious 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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Sexual content

Moderate: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Transphobia, Violence, and Xenophobia

Minor: Biphobia

skudiklier's review

dark emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

This book was stunning and heartbreaking and beautiful and painful and surprising. I read it for a book club that isn't meeting for several weeks (I always read book club books too early accidentally haha), but this time I'm glad because I want to think about it a lot before I'll know what to say. I'd definitely recommend it though, it's very good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Biphobia, Blood, Xenophobia, Violence, Vomit, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Murder, Misogyny, Islamophobia, Infidelity, Infertility, Incest, Homophobia, Hate crime, Grief, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Death, Deadnaming, and Bullying

Moderate: Abortion, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Murder, Eating disorder, Cursing, and Rape

Minor: Ableism