Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez

10 reviews

abril_chavez's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Having personal cultural ties to this book, there were a lot of moments where the author would describe a behavior or thought process they had in response to old school Mexican views and I kept picturing myself at various moments. It’s well written, easy to read and a nice flow. It was really fun to identify so much with a book and a character and see a lot of struggles for young Mexican girls and women being brought to light and into question about the injustice and misogyny at the root.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Car accident, and Death

Minor: Suicide attempt, Rape, Self harm, Homophobia, and Eating disorder

anniereads221's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Vomit, Mental illness, Misogyny, Grief, Rape, Bullying, Death, Racism, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual assault

fartplatinum's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death, and Cursing

Moderate: Sexual content, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, and Homophobia

Minor: Misogyny, Violence, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexism, Rape, Racism, Pedophilia, and Medical content

raynestorm's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective sad 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

4.0

This book is like a freight train, like a semi truck, like a landmine. It's beautiful and terrible. It feels in the same vein as "The Poet X" and "The Hate U Give" while still telling its own new, beautiful story. Full of love and loss, and excruciating depictions of pain and beauty.

I definitely feel some kind of way right now but do plan to do a reread here in the near future.

Not for the faint of heart, there is strong language, sex, violence, and some disturbing things later on in the book, but it is well worth the read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Misogyny, Violence, and Pregnancy

Minor: Rape and Sexual harassment

The narrator attempts suicide about 2/3rds of the way through the book

nitya's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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? It's complicated

2.5

2.5 really, 3 stars for the Chicago references (that I finally understand!!!)

Read for MLIS elective

I skimmed this but there's also ableist and fatphobic comments.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Fatphobia, Misogyny, Self harm, and Sexism

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

There's gun violence too but I don't know the extent of it

caitlink's review against another edition

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Sexual content

Minor: Misogyny and Sexism

memorable's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective tense slow-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: Grief

Moderate: Death and Suicide attempt

Minor: Misogyny, Rape, and Vomit

Depression

readingpicnic's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

I feel like the book started off very strong for me, but then I started to lose interest towards the middle since the book was trying to do so many things at once. This book is advertised pretty heavily as a mystery, but there was a huge chunk of the book where the mystery went stagnant with no progress towards figuring it out, so it felt like it was on the back burner. I did like the narrator’s voice a lot, and I’m surprised she was able to keep a sense of humor with all of her trauma, but she felt very authentic. I loved when she would get angry and tear into people, basically harassing them for their behavior or appearance because I love a woman that doesn’t hold back in their insults. I really disliked the romance in this book because it felt so cheesy and naïve, although it could just be that I’m outgrowing YA romance (and straight romance). I honestly think the romance with Connor could be removed from the book and nothing would be lost, but I also just didn’t like him from the get-go, and I think she could do much better. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Homophobia, Physical abuse, and Racism

lyd41's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Homophobia, Child abuse, Alcohol, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Sexism, and Body shaming

Moderate: Rape, Violence, Self harm, Racism, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Mental illness, Gun violence, Gaslighting, Eating disorder, Drug use, and Cursing

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

msbarnesela's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Grief, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, and Suicide attempt