Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

The Bloodprint by Ausma Zehanat Khan

1 review

cerilouisereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious slow-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

2.5

I wanted to love this book but the pacing didn't work for me and while the world created was vivid there wasn't enough explanation to the worldbuilding. There was also a very problematic ableist trope used for one of the villain characters (see content warnings if you would like to know what it was) and this took the book down a star for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Ableism, and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Racial slurs, and Misogyny

at the end of the book it was revealed that one of the antagonists, the Authoritan, was a person with albinism (described using the ableist slur "albino"). This is a really problematic trope that could have been avoided in a book published this recently