Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

49 reviews

ejanephillips's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Physical abuse, and Vomit

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Blood, Police brutality, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing

csoyars's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Vomit, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Rape, Terminal illness, and Police brutality

emk5's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Racism, Slavery, and Police brutality

Minor: Rape, Death of parent, and Murder

januaryghosts's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Drug abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Police brutality, and Murder

Moderate: Death, Hate crime, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual content, Slavery, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

avareadsoccasionally's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Really beautiful. It was lyrical at times and I really liked that. I read it quickly and it got me out of a slump. There’s nothing better than an author that really knows what’s up and how to express themselves through their writing 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Hate crime, Racism, Vomit, Death of parent, and Murder

abmochapman's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.5

In Sing, Unburied, Sing, Ward’s writing is lyrical, complex, and rooted in the earth. The novel is extremely moving, but in a disturbing and existential way. It exposes the continuity of slavery and racial exploitation through prison, and the ways that these ongoing processes can break families. There’s also some spiritual exploration only heightened the discomfort I felt in reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Death of parent, and Murder

sarahgarlicnan's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-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? Yes

3.0

Tough book because it is so dark and rough and displays so much tragic violence.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Drug use, Rape, and Murder

mamatoca's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

2.75

Beautiful writing, but just so full of trauma with little hope of redemption. This book gave me nightmares. The magical realism was confusing and inconsistent for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Drug use, Racism, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse

lottiegasp's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-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? Yes

3.75

This is a tragic book about the pervading anti-Blackness in the US from Jim Crow era until the modern day, and how this collective trauma is passed down intergenerationally

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Drug abuse, Hate crime, Racism, Rape, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Abandonment

This is a very sad book and covers a lot of dark topics relating to Jim Crow era anti-Blackness and abusive, neglectful parents. Read when you can handle it

lizziaha's review against another edition

4.5

This is a book about families, and the people that make them up. It’s about how the things we can’t control shape our lives, and how the tiny pieces of control we carve out can come back to haunt us. 
Ward manages to capture the very essence of the South. The violence that runs through the mud, through the blood. The history that some people can’t even see, and that other people can’t ignore. 
It wasn’t an easy book to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Racism, Slavery, Vomit, Police brutality, and Grief

Moderate: Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, and Murder