Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

12 reviews

lolatarantula's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

4.0

I cant talk about this book for a myriad of reasons because it's a good fucking book in the same way Blood Meridian is a good book. Like, it's an amazing book but I don't think many people would enjoy this book. Anyway, look up the warnings before you read this. It isn't for everyone. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, War, Death, Rape, Sexual content, Murder, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Colonisation, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Racism

streetmuseums's review

sorry but i don't want to read a white irish man writing about indigenous people in this way. so fucking weird 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, Racial slurs, and Racism

phantompansy's review against another edition

wish there was less war tbh

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Racism, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Alcohol

marxxx's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.75

most of this book left me sitting with a weird discomfort—the narrator and his partner are both complicit in a lot of really heinous things, and violence against Black and Indigenous people abounds. but I found it informative, and found the discomfort to be something worth examining, and the end of the book made me cry. 

The writing style takes some getting used but it adds something very unique and personal to the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Torture, Colonisation, War, Genocide, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, Violence, Excrement, and Gun violence

sanfordc11's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Violence, Gun violence, Colonisation, and Genocide

shinysarah28's review

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide

Moderate: War, Racial slurs, and Racism

veronicats's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Animal death, Death, Racial slurs, Excrement, Genocide, Medical trauma, Blood, Child death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Gore, Kidnapping, Violence, Vomit, and War

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Hate crime, Confinement, Outing, Rape, Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Deadnaming, and Sexual assault

chloemandy's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

• 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Racial slurs, and War

Moderate: Sexual assault

tysuckz's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

It was definitely challenging to read. I found the style of writing to be hard to read, but it was supposed to be written as though from the main character directly... so the grammatical errors were intentional, but challenging to read through. 

I don't find war books to be my type of thing, so it was challenging in that aspect also! However, I did find that some parts of it were interesting, especially the more tense parts ie meeting Caught His Horse First! 

I was getting bored half way through because of the writing style and it felt like a chore to read. Though it did pick up towards the end and I loved

that Thomas is actually Thomasina! I picked up the book thinking it was a gay novel when in actual fact it was gay & trans?

there weren't many mentioning in the reviews of this so I'm unsure if people just didn't pick that up or if I just interpreted it wrong? There were a lot of reviews discussing how they thought it was either incredibly improbable that they could've lived so freely as Gay Men in the 1850s (& the opposite... that it wasn't too surprising as back then lots of men shared beds with men). Regardless! Not too many mentionings of Thomas/Thomasina. 

The ending was almost incredibly devastating

although I did assume something sad would happen, including John Cole being dead after Thomasina & Winona came back from war, this didn't happen... and it just kept building up !!! I knew it was written from Thomasinas perspective so they had to still be alive... or the alternative was that they had died before finishing it

 

I did notice this is a series and that there is a book written by Winona, which I have a copy of the first chapter of within this book  and it seems to be written in a more pleasant way so maybe I'll pick that up lol.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, and Gore

lavendl's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, War, Racism, Gun violence, Genocide, Death, and Colonisation

Moderate: Child death, Colonisation, Vomit, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

Minor: Alcohol and Cannibalism