Reviews tagging 'Islamophobia'

Jumalat juhlivat öisin by Donna Tartt

138 reviews

cviii's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, and Stalking

juwain's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Suicide, and Murder

Moderate: Drug use, Homophobia, Incest, Misogyny, and Racism

Minor: Racial slurs, Antisemitism, and Islamophobia

jelliestars's review against another edition

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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Gun violence, Hate crime, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Antisemitism, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, and Cultural appropriation

whiteshadow's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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

5.0

I can’t even fathom how this book made me feel.
It’s one of the books that after you finish you just stare at the ceiling and think wtf have I just read (in a good way of course)

Morality, loneliness, academia, and picturesque are the first words that come to mind when I think of this book
This book is absolutely amazing from the characters, the writing, the philosophy, the aesthetics, the romanticism.

This is definitely in my top 5 best books I’ve ever read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Homophobia, and Incest

Minor: Racial slurs, Racism, Islamophobia, and Religious bigotry

raiynnn's review against another edition

dark reflective tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Incest, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Islamophobia, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Moderate: Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Self harm and Car accident

shlowee's review against another edition

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

1.5

Broooo..... I hated this.... *obsesses about it for weeks* *adds to re-read pile*

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Incest, Suicide, Islamophobia, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Classism

Minor: Violence

kristinawidda_k's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Blood, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug use, Incest, Misogyny, and Racism

Minor: Gun violence, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Antisemitism, and Islamophobia

theothersideofreading's review against another edition

emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

3.75

I really enjoyed the first 350-400 pages, but then I found the book starting to drag on a bit. I was less engaged by the end, though I thought the ending was pretty good

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Suicide, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, and Rape

Minor: Islamophobia

hunnybeemarie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.75

The Secret History was everything I hoped it would be! It is, as we all know, THE dark academia book. It explores a ton of interesting themes in amazing depth. It has a lot to say about Beauty; beauty as terror, the desire for beauty, and finding beauty in the macabre. It's really interesting to see the way some of the characters find so much beauty and fascination in such terrible things. 
It also discusses death and fate, isolation and knowledge, control and obsession, class and wealth. The way that Donna Tartt is able to weave so many themes into one book is phenomenal to see. There is never a point in which this book feels scattered or like it's doing too much. It keeps you enthralled from beginning to end.
This book is a masterclass in writing and intrigue. The fact that the "main event" doesn't happen until halfway through the book, but you are interested for all of the pages beforehand and all of the pages afterward, is quite a unique feat. 
I finally feel complete in my dark academic dreams having finally read this book all the way through. I started it once before when I was 13. I got about halfway through and I actually annotated it back then! They are the ugliest annotations I've ever seen and it was pretty funny to be able to see them. I think I thought I was pretty clever lol 😂 I don't know where I got half of the things that I wrote down back then from! The most random, kind of pretentious annotations 💀 
All in all, I loved reading and annotating this book, and it absolutely lives up to the hype. There are a few things that felt a little odd or unnecessary to me that are keeping me from giving it a full five stars, therefore I'm giving the secret history a still VERY good 4.75 ⭐ 
(Please look up the trigger warnings before reading this book)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

rotfaced's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.5

After having been recommended this book dozens of times across my academic and professional career, I can only believe that the people who recommended it have never actually read it themselves. Extremely overblown and unworthy of its legacy. 

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Content Warnings

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