Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

The Women by Kristin Hannah

46 reviews

dkamada's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective 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

5.0

TW: PTSD

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Colonisation, Dysphoria, and Classism

bookscatcoffee's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

Another great book from this author!  She captures what her main character’s life was like and uses that to reflect on what so many other women must have gone through.  Its crazy to me that there is no official statistic about the number of American military women stationed in Vietnam.  Everyone tried so hard to erase them and their service.  

As always, the writing is great!  “Maybe that was why people built walls: to look away, to ignore anything they didn’t want to see.”  Definitely worth reading!  5 stars

Historical fiction with diverse characters

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death and Genocide

Minor: Cancer and Infertility

charlotte_37's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

Minor: Confinement, Car accident, and Classism

wendys_neverland's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Genocide, Car accident, and Abandonment

Minor: Cancer

samanthaxjean's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

stormborn_13's review

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, and Antisemitism

riabookishlife's review

emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Miscarriage, War, and Injury/Injury detail

mckennaroan's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

shelleyschureads's review

adventurous challenging emotional informative inspiring 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Infidelity, Mental illness, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, and War

curlywiggles's review against another edition

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This started off strong and I thought it was going to be a 4 or 5 stars (I love The Nightingale) but it lost me about a third into the book. Once she gets home from Vietnam it gets repetitive. 

The main character is very privileged and makes so many flawed decisions, it's hard to root for her. I wanted to know more about Ethel and Barb, the book would have been better if it had focused more on them and less on the romances. The topics are obviously heavy, and important, but there's not enough hope or lightness to balance the story. It's just a trauma pile on. 

Don't get me started on the romances and the ending! There were too many unrealistic things happening. Guys falling in love with her at first sight, her friends travelling across the country at a moments notice every time she fell apart.

3 stars because I was interested in the part set in Vietnam and it was pretty fast paced. I did want to stay in the time period (like not literally in a war, but learning more about that period of history, which is a sign of a good historical fiction for me. I'm glad that women veterans stories have a wider audience because of this book. And that it highlights the lies the US government made during and after the war. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Mental illness, Misogyny, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Torture, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy