Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende

4 reviews

teigancollins's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative reflective 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, War, Terminal illness, Dementia, Child death, Gun violence, Torture, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

neptunereign's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

2.75

The end was really the most interesting part. A handful of paragraphs were beautifully written but I felt it was mostly just rattling off historical information. It dragged on between that and laying out the life story of a few (indeed likable) characters, mainly because it was in sort of an extremely sterile writing style. There was little emotion conveyed through the writing, what little emotions I felt while reading this book solely came from feeling for the characters as they went through something. 
I liked the way the author inserted bits of information that foreshadowed later events but didn't give away too much until the time was right. 
All in all it was hard to keep motivated to finish this book, but it's informative when it comes to the history of Chile and Catalonia.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Miscarriage, Murder, Police brutality, Pregnancy, and War

claudia_bow's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Infidelity, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Blood, Cancer, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Medical content, Police brutality, Sexual content, and Violence

sarah984's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

The history that this book was based on was fascinating, but I think I would have preferred to read a straight-up history book to this work of historical fiction. The characters are all very vaguely drawn and have extremely predictable stories. The reader is always told how the characters feel instead of it being demonstrated in the text, and somehow despite all of the characters’ hardships everything seems to always work out neatly for them so the stakes felt weirdly low.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Fatphobia, Grief, Gore, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Medical content, and Violence

Moderate: Ableism, Cancer, Dementia, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Rape, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Torture, and Xenophobia