Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

13 reviews

mikki_9's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, and Grief

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Racism, Colonisation, Death, Addiction, and Alcohol

snowiceblackfruit77's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Gore, Grief, Racism, Addiction, and Alcohol

unusualsnowunicorn's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective tense

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Racism, Addiction, and Vomit

bishopbox's review

emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Mental illness, and Gore

Moderate: Racism

mar's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

crying...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, and Grief

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, and Gore

Minor: Cancer, Addiction, Car accident, and Racism

directorpurry's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Body horror

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Racism, and Violence

Minor: Death of parent and Kidnapping

laurenkimoto's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.25

I’m just going to be sitting here thinking about this book and its use of symbolism and language for the next 10-14 business days

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Addiction, Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Genocide, Grief, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, and Racism

sabrinalefebvre's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-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

At first, the 1st person POV threw me off, but I soon fell quickly in love with the story and the characters relationships.

I loved the almost all cast of women characters, how they all supported each other as a family and woman’s.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Minor: Cancer and Racism

jess_d84's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Death

Minor: Racism

shadestate's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

What a wonderful, raw exploration of grief, community, and guilt. How avoiding deep pain doesn't make it disappear. It just gets a chance to linger and fester. I loved how Mackenzie, the main character, was deeply flawed. 

Anxious, avoidant, pushing people away because she feels like a burden. Unable to ask for help. Falling into the trap that pretending you're okay is the same as not making your loved ones worried. Yet still loved by her family and friends. Because we all have our flaws, the bad. 

 

A five of cups book at its core. Definitely want to reread this late October, when I think the pages will speak even more than they did now, at the start of spring. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Abandonment, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Colonisation

Moderate: Mental illness, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Racism, and Child death

Minor: Sexual harassment, Sexism, Body horror, and Murder