Reviews tagging 'Racism'

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

11 reviews

pacifickat's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

This book is exactly the sort of thing I would love: a series of loosely interconnected short stories that serve as vignettes of people's lives surroinding a central world-altering event. I will write a more thorough reveiw later, but for now suffice it to say that I loved this book, its style, its many distinct voices, and the audiobook narration was perfection.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Grief, Suicide, Pandemic/Epidemic, Child death, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcohol and Medical content

Minor: Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racism, and Violence

Euthanasia

otakatoe3's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Cancer, Abandonment, Infidelity, Chronic illness, Child death, Death, Racism, Terminal illness, Confinement, and Grief

plantybooklover's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad slow-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

3.75

This is a speculative fiction book,  mashed up with sci fi, and a touch of horror.  A creative and inventive exploration of a fictional pandemic started by Ground water contamination. Each chapter explores themes of the environment, relationships, community, grief, death and dying.  Per notes, this was started in 2011- so it must have been wild for the author to experience the Covid 19 Pandemic as it unrolled.  The parallels are never far from the mind as one reads.   Definitely a thought provoking reading experience. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Cancer, Racism, Animal cruelty, Death, Medical trauma, and Medical content

ariep's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

Absolutely incredible read, I loved it. Very beautiful, and messy, and emotional. What a great reflection on what it means to be human.  I loved the broad spectrum of emotions I felt, and how real it all was. I was surprised by how interconnected the stories were, I really loved that! The writing was incredibly beautiful. Definitely going to reread!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Body horror, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Child death

Moderate: Suicide, Death of parent, Death, Cursing, Chronic illness, Infidelity, Racism, Classism, and Medical content

Minor: Pregnancy

maddie_can_read's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

Very unique book, really enjoyed it. Author was really good at getting you to care for the many characters. Lots of interesting speculative fiction and science fiction ideas. 

The first few chapters were a lot sadder than I expected and I cried 3 times and I don't normally cry for books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, Child death, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Grief, and Medical content

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Infidelity, and Suicide

I found the ends of chapter 2, "city of laughter" and chapter 4 "pig son Incredibly sad. Chapter 2 involves the death of a terminally ill child and chapter 4 involves the death of a terminally ill pig- hybrid who is child-like

horizonous's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Terminal illness, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Animal death, and Child death

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Racism, Car accident, Drug abuse, Infidelity, and Murder

fraise's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Body horror, Infidelity, Racism, Xenophobia, Child death, Cancer, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Terminal illness, Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Pregnancy, Classism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Sexism

gotabookforeverysituation's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Suicide, Grief, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Racism, Medical trauma, and Child death

Moderate: Animal death

common_nonsense's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Death, Terminal illness, Child death, Racism, and Grief

colie923's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Chronic illness, Child death, Medical trauma, Medical content, Grief, Alcohol, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Infidelity, Xenophobia, Racism, and Medical trauma