Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

L'isola degli alberi scomparsi by Elif Shafak

26 reviews

mlkai's review against another edition

emotional informative sad slow-paced

3.0

i read it for the trees 🌳✨
writing to floral & detailed for my taste. the love story didn’t grab me. learning about the civil war felt heavy, timely, real. learned a lot about trees tho which i’m happy about

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Violence, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and War

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Mental illness, Suicide, and Abandonment

jmitchell20's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative sad 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? Yes

3.0

Thought the idea of one of the narrators being a tree was very original. But I thought Ada was written as a 80-year-old teenager. Very clunky dialogue from her, but otherwise I enjoyed the plot and the different relationships and the history of Cyprus I had no knowledge about previous. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, and War

deluna's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child death, Genocide, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, and War

leontyna's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child death, Death, Hate crime, Violence, and Death of parent

emmagreenwood's review against another edition

challenging informative 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Child death, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, and Classism

cedardleland's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide and Death of parent

caleb_makes's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-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

4.0

Devastating and beautiful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Abortion, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Cursing, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

gruizco23's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.75

What a gorgeous, magical book. I definitely want to re-read it in a few years, because it's so packed full of rich storytelling, I'm sure I missed something. My only qualm was that it lagged in moments, but honestly they were few and far between. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and War

Moderate: Alcoholism

mermaidstears's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-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

4.5

I really loved this book. The writing is gorgeous and the story itself is completely compelling. I throughly enjoyed the amount of nature featured in this and the narration from the fig tree were some of my favourite parts. Not too mention the amount of loveable characters and the love they have between their own relationships and their relationships with each other. This taught me so much about Cyprus, Greek and Turkish Cypriots and the conflict and history as well as the culture. Highly recommend 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Suicide, Torture, and Alcohol

romyreads_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Violence, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and War

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicide, Terminal illness, Dementia, and Abandonment