Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

Wahala by Nikki May

8 reviews

jtpgdavey's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Classism, Fatphobia, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Murder, and Death of parent

Minor: Police brutality, Pregnancy, Car accident, Blood, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Xenophobia, and Stalking

laurataylor's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death of parent, Police brutality, Sexual content, Body shaming, Death, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Murder, and Toxic friendship

zara89's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Body shaming, Abortion, Death of parent, Violence, Infidelity, Alcohol, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Infertility, Physical abuse, Stalking, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, and Police brutality

abzster53's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Police brutality

yolie's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

The book spends a lot of time building up the tension to this “tragic event” forboded in the synopsis and introduced early on into the book. However, when the incident occurs it is dealt with rather swiftly and makes the ending seem rushed and unsatisfactory.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Physical abuse, Body shaming, Toxic friendship, Violence, Fatphobia, Racism, Gaslighting, and Murder

Moderate: Blood, Car accident, Death, Abortion, and Death of parent

Minor: Domestic abuse, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Police brutality, and Toxic relationship

foldingthepage_kayleigh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Toxic friendship, and Stalking

Moderate: Murder and Abortion

Minor: Police brutality

saraheli's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Alcohol, Body shaming, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Grief, Violence, Stalking, Racism, Infidelity, Fatphobia, and Murder

Moderate: Abortion, Bullying, Alcoholism, Police brutality, and Sexual content

spillingthebooktee's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-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? Yes

4.25

A beautifully done debut novel from Nikki May!

We follow 3 women (Ronke, Simi, and Boo) as they navigate their friendship and their relationships with their spouses/partners until in comes a new member of the group— Isobel. Isobel wants to be a part of the friend group but then tries to get to know all 3 women individually and that’s when the real drama begins. 

I think Nikki navigated these friendships so well and showed the complexities of real life in a believable way through multiple perspectives. I loved seeing the cultures represented in this book! Nigerian, British, French, American… you have it all! It was a fast paced and jam packed novel with twists and turns at every corner. Nikki gave us crumbs in each chapter that helped you form the entire picture by the end of the book when she brought everything together (and completely blew my mind lol). I have to say, I did not expect the ending we got in any way!!! I was so thrown off!

I thoroughly enjoyed this book & cannot wait to continue to discuss it with my book club!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Xenophobia, Murder, Infidelity, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Fatphobia, Death of parent, Alcohol, Body shaming, and Death

Minor: Police brutality