Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

4 reviews

lamegod's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Miscarriage, Sexism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Confinement, Torture, Kidnapping, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, Abortion, and Injury/Injury detail

ronan_lesh's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Miscarriage, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Abandonment

Minor: Cultural appropriation

qteabeans's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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? No

4.0

This is such a powerful example of a book that is so good but outside of my wheelhouse. If you want to read about someone navigating what family is, how heritage impacts us, and how all of that crashes together when you're expecting a child, this would be a great book for you. It is a lovely piece of literary fiction that uses a lot of Catholic references. If that sounds like your jam, you'll probably love it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Child death and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Gun violence, Infidelity, and Alcohol

becksusername's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

Wow this did not have a happy ending. At all. I really wanted it to. This book was so good and had such an original premise, I was definitely hooked immediately and tore through it.

Re-Read: Holy fucking shit I love this book. The ending fucked me up all over again, but in a different way because I knew what was coming.

the part at the end where she describes the end of winter in Minnesota had me on the brink of tears. We don't know it's heaven. Fuck. And of course the whole premise is so much creepier given the current state of women's bodily autonomy in the US. Fuuuuuck

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Outing

Moderate: Kidnapping and Murder

Minor: Drug use, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, and Fire/Fire injury