Reviews tagging 'Racism'

The Spite House by Johnny Compton

15 reviews

theliteraryhooker's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

An interesting premise, but sadly the execution was lacking in depth. I wanted the ideas around the spite house and the returned to be way more fleshed out. The haunted house element was good but there were so many other details introduced then never really explored. The pacing was also pretty uneven which was jarring in places. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Child death

Minor: Racism and Miscarriage

irenemarie's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Child death, Death, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Mental illness, and Classism

Moderate: Racism, War, and Violence

Minor: Gun violence and Death of parent

directorpurry's review

challenging dark mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Terminal illness

Moderate: Murder and Racism

cluelesspixie's review

dark mysterious sad fast-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Mental illness

Moderate: Racism

d0505's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

Graphic: Racism and Child death

Moderate: War and Murder

chris_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Kidnapping, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Child abuse and Murder

Minor: Gaslighting, Grief, and Racism

doomluz's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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

5.0

I loved this. It took a while to build up, but the plot was interesting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Grief, and Racism

Moderate: War

blacksphinx's review

mysterious sad tense 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

4.5

Although I felt the ending was missing something, Johnny Compton knows how to puts words in front of each other and I eagerly await for whatever he does next.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Grief, Racism, and Child death

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: War and Fire/Fire injury

danaslitlist's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

3.0

I don’t know entirely how I feel about this one, but I do know that the prose was wonderful, the atmosphere was brilliant and

Eunice

had it coming.

Overall it was engaging and had me thinking a lot, but it felt a bit convoluted at times as though it had a lot of different plot lines it wanted to explore in too short amount of time.

It also does a good job of giving you flawed characters that have you questioning if you support them or not.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Racism

limina's review

dark mysterious sad slow-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

2.75

It was a fine book. It took a long time to get where it was going- there wasn't enough info for well over a hundred pages and then a big info dump. There were enough time jumps and perspective shifts that I had some difficulty keeping track. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Racism