mo_moana_k 's review for:

The Shining by Stephen King

3.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

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The amount of racial slurs in this book are incredible,  at some points there's one on every page. It's annoying and completely unnecessary.  A white man has no business using the n word that many times.  It's not even to make the reader dislike the character that says them, they're said by the protagonists too. Other than that the book was good but that really got under my skin.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder

Minor: Racism, Vomit, Antisemitism, Grief, Fire/Fire injury