Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

The Little Liar by Mitch Albom

11 reviews

courtneymacal's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad 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: Death of parent, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Medical content, Racism, Torture, Cultural appropriation, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Child death, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, and War

aksmaestri's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Deportation, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, War, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Genocide, Torture, Religious bigotry, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Mental illness

juanat77's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-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

Moderate: Child abuse, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Violence, Antisemitism, Torture, Death of parent, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Slavery, Confinement, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Pregnancy, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Blood, Murder, Death, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, and Vomit

craftyanty's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Death, Torture, Genocide, Grief, Child death, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, and Violence

emm_glynn's review

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, War, Confinement, Genocide, Hate crime, Murder, Racism, and Religious bigotry

jackierobinson's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Antisemitism, Genocide, Hate crime, Medical content, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Violence, Classism, Medical trauma, Murder, Racism, and War

stephanie_jmc's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.75

This book was one of the best books I’ve read in a while. 9.5/10. It’s a fictional book with lots of realistic history from WWII. It was so well told, coming from the perspective of the narrator, “the Truth”. The “Truth” tells the stories of four people who were all connected during the war. There is a strong emphasis on the importance of honesty and why humans try to avoid the truth. 

The character development is outstanding. The emotions are very raw, this book will definitely make you feel things. It was very sad but also uplifting in some ways. This is the first time in a long time I can say that I really loved the ending. I thought the pacing was great. I looked up a lot of the historical pieces and it’s very accurate as well. I’m not surprised, as Mitch Albom has written many books I’ve loved - but this one might be my favourite. The only thing I didn’t LOVE was there was some slight confusion with some of the jumping between characters and their story lines, but he does tie it together very nicely at the end. It also seems a little bit far fetched in some areas but not completely impossible, but even the narrator acknowledges that. 

I highly recommend this book, it was honestly so well done, filled with insight and spreading awareness, but will definitely get you in your heart strings so try to read it if you’re in a good space emotionally. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, War, Murder, Death of parent, Torture, Genocide, Death, Violence, Gun violence, and Hate crime

jhudson45's review

emotional inspiring sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Xenophobia, Grief, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Murder, Genocide, Death, Religious bigotry, Antisemitism, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Trafficking, Death of parent, Deportation, Racism, and Torture

fieryrogue's review

challenging emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Genocide, War, Physical abuse, Murder, Hate crime, Gun violence, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Mental illness and Grief

sgreising's review

dark emotional informative reflective 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? Yes

5.0

• every book Mitch albom writes is incredible. A must read if you like historical fiction 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, War, Murder, Xenophobia, and Violence