Reviews tagging 'War'

Via col vento by Mariarosa Mancuso, Margaret Mitchell

50 reviews

cultivatingdelight's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, and War

Moderate: Cursing

vavocado's review against another edition

emotional funny sad tense slow-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

4.75

Only marked off for how damn long it is. Everyone is so flawed and I love it. My jaw dropped at so many intervals. A true classic of literature. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Child death and Domestic abuse

amymegan27's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Classism

jsam96's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

A very good book but it feels as if it defends  slavery    

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Slavery, and War

kmhst25's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

3.75

Such a unique book. I had heard a lot about it, and it still took me completely by surprise. 

Strengths:

• Making you care about truly reprehensible people. The male and females leads are both exceedingly unlikeable, and it can be hard to make an unlikeable character compelling. Mitchell does it with ease.
• The South's perspective of the Civil War. There's a lot of emotional context for what the war was like for people in the South. The writing makes you sympathize for the characters, even though you can't sympathize for their cause.
• Sheer readability. It's so dramatic that you can read it for hours at a stretch.

Weaknesses:

• The length. The book spans 12 years and is over 900 pages long. No book needs to be that long, and this one is no exception. There are sections that drag, specifically in the years before and after the war.
• The South's perspective of Reconstruction. The racism in this section is truly off the charts and the history is one-sided at best, downright lies at worst. This is a disappointment, because the history of the Civil War section holds up. 
• No neat wrap-up. Mitchell has said that the book's theme is survival, which I would agree with, but I wouldn't say that there's a definitive takeaway or clean ending. It simply ends.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexism, Slavery, and War

Minor: Rape

Rape is frequently discussed/mentioned, and there are some scenes with questionable consent and/or attempted rape. There are no explicit rape scenes.

luminalpyxie's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

I watched the movie and didn’t like it at all. I never planned on reading the book, but had heard that it was good. So, when I came across it for free online, I decided to give it a chance. I’m so glad I did! It’s one of the best books I’ve ever read. Though, it is a product of its time. So, beware of that. Also, I’m a sucker for ambiguous endings done well and this book delivers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Slavery, and War

malmark's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and War

mastrisofha's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, and War

lemonflower's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

This is a tough one. The story is so good but the racism, misogyny, and romanticism of slavery is so strong. Every praise you’ve heard of this book is true, and every criticism is equally, if not more, true. In the end, I’m giving it a good rating because I rate them based on how engaged I was and emotionally invested, and that was a lot…. But yeah. It’s a tough one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Blood, Abortion, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

elgringochapin's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, and War