Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

67 reviews

julswk's review against another edition

mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

The relationship between Juliette and Roma does not have much buildup in the book, rather it relies completely on what happened 4 years prior which we only get slight snippets of, but not enough to make me care for the characters.

We are told they're in love but not really shown.

Because of that their relationship falls quite flat.

Juliette's character also relies heavily on the implication that she is ruthless and has a reputation, but I wish the author let her be more violent and unhinged throughout the book. Especially during her fights.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Death, Torture, Pandemic/Epidemic, Body horror, Gun violence, and Gore

Moderate: Deadnaming, Blood, Transphobia, Dysphoria, Alcohol, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Police brutality, Stalking, Vomit, and War

linblythe_pub22's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Violence

Minor: Deadnaming, Death of parent, Racism, and Xenophobia

askirmishofwit's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny informative 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Colonisation, Xenophobia, Toxic relationship, and War

jinx_mars's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.0

It would be a great read for someone who has time for it! it was just really slow-paced for me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Blood, Hate crime, Body horror, Xenophobia, Violence, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Addiction and Alcohol

jfield351's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

A pretty good book! I did wonder how close it would sit to the orginal romeo and juliet story arc. very imaginative and left on a cliffhanger so i’ll have to read the next one!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Murder, Death, and Xenophobia

kirschyhershey's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Violence

Moderate: Xenophobia

her's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful informative mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Body horror, Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, and Gore

Moderate: Death of parent and Xenophobia

Minor: Deadnaming, Drug abuse, and Transphobia

shaipanda's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

This was a solid four star book for me 
I didn’t love the premise as the descriptions were pretty gross and I don’t love reading about pandemics in the middle of 2 lol but overall I enjoyed this
It was super fast paced especially once you got a quarter or halfway through and I got more invested than I expected to 
I’m immediately going to start These Violent Ends but idk if I’m going to read the next ones that come out (and definitely not going to buy them like I did with the duology) as I’m not obsessed and also I don’t love some of the stuff Chloe Gong has done (especially when it came to blurbing and supporting problematic books and then not making any kind of statement or anything about it to apologize in any way 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Xenophobia, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Vomit, Racism, Transphobia, and Blood

Minor: Deadnaming, Suicidal thoughts, and Racial slurs

tinybluepixel's review

adventurous dark slow-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? Yes

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Body horror, Murder, Racism, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Classism, Death of parent, Gore, Suicide attempt, Transphobia, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Misogyny, Physical abuse, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Drug use, and Kidnapping

btrz7's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Alcohol, Death, Gun violence, Medical content, and Violence

Minor: Child death, Drug use, Transphobia, Sexism, and Xenophobia