Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

Pequeño país by Gaël Faye

6 reviews

preciousnightmare's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Deportation

Minor: Vomit

kv_96's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Murder, Colonisation, War

svenia_dracul's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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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, Colonisation

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

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

stellahadz's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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L'histoire émouvante d'un jeune garçon qui grandit dans l'ombre du génocide rwandais et de la guerre civile burundaise. Ce serait un bon roman à explorer dans un cours d'histoire ou de français au secondaire. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, War

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Vomit

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, War

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

crazytourists_books's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

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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, War