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sadhbhprice's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Addiction, Confinement, Death, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Drug abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment
Minor: Pregnancy
stephe's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Colonisation and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Racism, Police brutality, Death of parent, and Abandonment
Minor: Sexual violence
scmiller's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Medical content, Cultural appropriation, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Minor: Trafficking
carlytenille's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Deadnaming, Death, Gun violence, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic
sian's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Racism, and Medical content
Moderate: Addiction, Sexual content, and Death of parent
Minor: Drug use
caseythereader's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Racism, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, and Colonisation
Moderate: Sexual content
erinwolf1997's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Death, Police brutality, Medical content, and Colonisation
Moderate: Addiction, Genocide, Grief, and Death of parent
Minor: Animal death and Cultural appropriation
emory's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Racism, Police brutality, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, and Colonisation
farenmaddox's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
2.0
In some ways, it's very reflective of real life that the story which was happening to the characters was interrupted and re-prioritized by the pandemic and by George Floyd's death, and some people may find this to be a really profound message. But to me this is not how a novel works and the story I thought was being told in the end, wasn't told properly due to the sharp turn into current events in the second half and then the sudden scramble to resolve the ghost story at the end.
I also think there is some nitpicky things that are coloring my opinion - the amount of attention given to the author self-insert character bothered me more than I can say, and the brief lapses into a different point-of-view character were glaring and weird and unnecessary, contributing nothing to the narrative and not even regular enough to seem deliberate. These things may not bother another reader.
Overall, I would still really like to read more of Erdrich's work, because there was so much potential in this book, some very compelling passages and a charmingly dark humor. But The Sentence missed the mark for me.
Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Racism, and Police brutality
Moderate: Child abuse and Death of parent
unboxedjack's review against another edition
- 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
Moderate: Hate crime, Racism, Police brutality, and Murder
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol