Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

16 reviews

rachelmerrie's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense 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? No

5.0

This was so incredibly powerful and necessary. I will absolutely be buying the physical copy to re-absorb and annotate it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Hate crime, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Abandonment, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Trafficking

bookishmaryrose's review

adventurous challenging mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

Masterful storytelling. Beautiful concepts. My biggest critique is the harmful trope that people are “better off dead” than disabled. Really? That’s so harmful and so avoidable in an otherwise gripping, thoughtful, artful story. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Trafficking, Murder, Alcohol, and Colonisation

mysterymom40's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

semeyers's review

adventurous challenging dark inspiring reflective slow-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

4.5

 Overall, I loved this book. The descriptions of the landscapes and the characters throughout the book were amazing and worked to really put you in the scene. Not only did I come to love all of the Vagabonds individually, I also grew attached to all of the characters they met and built relationships.

My main gripe with the book is how incredibly rushed the ending was. It was getting closer and closer to the end and I was getting worried because almost nothing had been resolved. Then, suddenly in only a handful of pages, everything is wrapped up with a bow. It was kind of shocking and I found myself reading one of the last chapters over again a few times before I could process the amount of information that was thrown at the reader. I found this lessened the impact of the book quite a bit. I wish 50 pages or so had been cut from the middle and added to the end, giving the author more time to really flesh it out and keep the same tone and pacing that the rest of the book had.

I did still genuinely enjoy this book! It was a book club pick and it was a great book for that - it includes many topics and is sure to spark some conversation and discussion. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Alcohol

Moderate: Racism, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Drug use, and Sexual assault

sjanke2's review

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

rebeccarudisill's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Adventurous with a nice bow tied at the end! Lots of info about the Great Depression and the US’s treatment of Native Americans. Lovable narrator. But HUGE trigger warning: bad things happen to children throughout the book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gun violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual assault

Child endangerment and violence toward children are key plot points and themes!!!!!