Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

La casa en el mar más azul. Edición especial: Edición especial con cantos tintados by TJ Klune, Carlos Abreu Fetter

208 reviews

panopticemu's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I cried. 10/10 would cry again.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Hate crime, Xenophobia, Abandonment

This book is written in a hopeful tone, with many loveable characters doing their best to foster love and kindness in a world full of hatred for anything and anyone that doesn't conform to their societal norms. Any mention of the above triggers is consistently dealt with in a very respectful way, acknowledging their existence in the world, and encouraging the reader to remain hopeful and keep doing what they can to foster kindness and inclusivity wherever they can regardless of the situation.

plantdonut's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime, Racism

Minor: Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

nz_elle's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism

Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Abandonment

mariahmmm's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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

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A world of dismal grey becomes cerulean for Mr Linus Baker when he is assigned to assess the suitability of a Level 4 orphanage that houses dangerous magical children.

This was a beautiful heartbreaking story of hatred born from fear, love and it's gentle change, and a man slowly becoming undone.

One star deducted because the story was inspired by the forced institutionalisation of native children in residential schools, and turning this trauma into a fantasy, with naive solutions and a magical happy ending to what is a complex problem, felt nonchalant. I do think, however, that this kind of story needs to be told to show how unintentionally ignorant we can be by sticking to the narrow viewpoint we've been told to live within- the rules and regulations we become accustomed to living by.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Colonisation, Classism

Minor: Cursing

sadiaa's review against another edition

3.5

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

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I didn't find myself in invested in the plot or characters, some parts just seemed so predictable.

Felt weird knowing this was based on residential schools, with how horrific we knew those were.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Xenophobia, Gaslighting, Classism

myweeksareallbooked's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia, Hate crime

lauraelovesbooks's review against another edition

5.0

emotional inspiring relaxing 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: No

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I don’t even have the words. This book makes my heart burst in the absolute best way. I could exist in this world for eternity 

Really, just no notes ❤️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime

cmlalonde's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime

bookb1itch's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny inspiring 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

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Can't believe I waited so long to read this one.  What a beautiful cosy queer fantasy about belonging and love.  There aren't enough nerdy superlatives.  Listened to the end of the epilogue walking home from work and grinned like a loon. It felt great!  Minor cursing and I loved hearing "git" in an American book. The characters were all so loveable, especially children Lucy and Chauncey. Linus was a lot like me - I look forward to bursting my bubble and finding colour.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cursing, Hate crime

kathleendayle's review against another edition

3.5

emotional hopeful 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

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Sweet story with endearing characters. Seems written for an adolescent-to-young-adult audience. Not typically my taste, but I did enjoy it. Even as a straight reader, queer stories are important!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Abandonment, Classism

Moderate: Confinement, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Forced institutionalization

Minor: Grief, Outing