Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Slow Horses by Mick Herron

9 reviews

collegiate_assessor_kovalyov's review

dark funny 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: Kidnapping and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Racial slurs, and Racism

Minor: Suicide and Vomit

miniingrid's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Excrement, Gore, Racial slurs, Islamophobia, Medical trauma, Racism, Murder, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Sexism, and Violence

Minor: Suicide and Infidelity

lzad's review

adventurous challenging dark informative 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? It's complicated

4.0

Brilliant as an audiobook - Sean Barrett has the perfect world weary tone.  
Both sharply funny and despairingly bleak. The unendearing characters have one thing in common, they're where they are because they have screwed up. Royally.
It's hard to care about anyone in the book (except one), but you can't help but be fascinated by all of them.  
Definite edge of your seat finish.
Next one please!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Racism and Religious bigotry

vitsa's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Really enjoyed this. Once it got going, it was fast paced and I enjoyed how the plot developed. It felt like we were getting a mini plot twist every other chapter and that was really fun. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Kidnapping, and Racism

eliel's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

3.75

A very fun read as a spy book. It could have been better balanced with humour, I felt like the beginning and end had some quite funny lines but the middle was lacking in this regard. I was left wanting to know more about the characters and I'll grab the second book in the series when I have my next craving for a spy thriller.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Xenophobia, Body horror, and Racism

Moderate: Gore

maggies's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

3.0

A spy caper with suitable action and intrigue. The Apple+ show is faithful to the book, I think, which was a happy surprise. Thoroughly enjoyable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

uranaishi's review

adventurous dark funny 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Confinement, Kidnapping, Racism, and Hate crime

Moderate: Racial slurs, Body shaming, Blood, Bullying, Cursing, Abandonment, Violence, Fatphobia, Police brutality, Alcohol, Death, Classism, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Medical content, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, War, Drug abuse, Outing, Gun violence, Infidelity, Misogyny, Drug use, and Homophobia

meganpbennett's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

I picked this up on a whim, and later learned that my mom really likes the series and was surprised that I hadn't heard of it before then. 

We open with River making a mistake that gets him sent to Slough House, with the Slow Horses. A time later, things start slowly happening, with a journalist being investigated. This section is very very slow, and the timeline is so convoluted as to be "wibbly wobbly", making it very hard to figure out what's happening in the present time or what happened in the past, or even, what's not happening, what didn't happen. 

The kidnapping and the actual plot involving who the kid is and why he was kidnapped is awful and many sections seemed unnecessary. 

I found the first half far too slow, and the second half was way too full of sections where a character would say that he knew things and then the next sentence would be "so he told them". 

The character's names were far too similar; I gave up around the middle of the book ever figuring out who was who and why I should care about them. The writing was decent and the thriller aspect was good, but the pacing was way off, and the "so he told them" lines started getting frustrating very early on. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Hate crime, Violence, Death, Alcoholism, Body horror, Cursing, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Islamophobia, Racism, Gore, Kidnapping, and Religious bigotry

smitinghedgehog's review

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Xenophobia, Alcoholism, Blood, Torture, Fatphobia, Gore, Islamophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Racism, Religious bigotry, Suicide, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Sexism, Violence, and Vomit