Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Meu Pequeno País by Gaël Faye

5 reviews

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

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

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