Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang

12 reviews

anitaconchita's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Xenophobia, and Sexual content

pipettesandpages's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Child death

Moderate: Xenophobia, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Physical abuse

rilynjewett's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Sexism, Gore, Xenophobia, Blood, and Body horror

Minor: Blood, Eating disorder, Racism, Confinement, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Colonisation

slimyfan's review against another edition

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? Yes

5.0

Beautiful book; amazing descriptions 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Racism, Fatphobia, and Xenophobia

rmperezpadilla's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-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: Body shaming, Animal death, Classism, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Drug use, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Chronic illness

Minor: Vomit and Cancer

Deals frequently with not only

animal>/spoiler> death but also

extinction of various species.

lorenag5's review

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Deportation, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Cultural appropriation, Xenophobia, Slavery, Sexual content, Classism, and Fire/Fire injury

corirose's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

I really struggled to get through this. The word “sensual” comes up in a lot of reviews and I think there was way too much reliance on that mood/style vs pulling me along a coherent and engaging plot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Physical abuse, Xenophobia, and Domestic abuse

mmccombs's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

An absolutely luxurious read. The writing was something you rest in, something to roll around in your mouth and your mind. It’s climate fiction, which can be heavy, but it’s also a book that inspires desire and hope and deep love for the complexity of life. The food descriptions were great, and the descriptions of why food matters were even better. Even reading the acknowledgments was a treat! I will be thinking about this book for a long time and would highly recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia and Grief

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Car accident, Animal death, and Physical abuse

katherineloder's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Xenophobia

dystopia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Classism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Sexism, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, and Car accident

Minor: Physical abuse, Alcohol, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Child death