Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Petit pays: Französische Lektüre für die Oberstufe by Gaël Faye

7 reviews

svenia_dracul's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense 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

4.75

If you like being on a roller-coaster of emotions and graphic, like REALLY graphic scenes, this is for you. I was chuckling at one second and the next I was feeling like I could vomit, don't watch this while eating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, and Colonisation

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Self harm, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Antisemitism

jj2020's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Genocide, Racism, Violence, and War

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Gun violence, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Colonisation

paperquilt's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

anansi_girrl's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and War

crazytourists_books's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

The story of the book is set in Burundi (that shares borders and ethnic groups with Rwanda) in 1994, just before, during, and after the Tutsi and Twa genoside in Rwanda (by the Hutu, for those of you that are too young to remember). The protagonist is 10 or eleven years old, the age that I was that year. 
Only I was safe in Athens, Greece, getting fragments of the news (no internet back then), and the protagonist of the book was there, in the middle of the "storm". 
It is a simply written yet interesting book. The perspective of a young child, of the war and the genocide, might be more naive than that of an adult, but it can be equally heartbreaking. 
My daughter is now ten, and I can't even imagine her reading about events like that, forget living them. I think I'll give her this book in a couple of years...
(If you are interested in the Rwandan civil war and genocide, I would strongly recommend the memoir of a survivor, "The girl who smiled beads".)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and War

wordsofclover's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Racism

Minor: Animal cruelty

charleyroxy's review against another edition

challenging sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide and Violence

Moderate: Racial slurs

Minor: Animal cruelty