Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

29 reviews

ckingcolorado's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, and Violence

Minor: Miscarriage, Sexual content, and Abandonment

Enjoyable historical fiction centering the Latina/Indigenous experience in CO in the mining/early modern eras. It adresses the racism and misfortune embedded in the rapid expansion of the West and also offers sweet details of a woman coming into her own as she discovers her family's past. Ooh and the main character is a fortune-teller.

laurao's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Xenophobia

Minor: Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Police brutality, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

rachelle_reads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.75

This book brought me to a place and time I did not know well, and the author did an amazing job of evoking the setting. Luz and all of her family grew on me, and I found myself wishing the best for all of them, despite all the challenging forces in their world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Death of parent

mdavis26's review against another edition

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Blood, Vomit, Abortion, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

imds's review against another edition

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Classism

bebidocrimes's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

3.5

You can tell how much the writer cares for the land, in any timeline, by how much beauty and love is in the descriptions. It makes the mining throughout feel more heartbreaking and maybe not worth the risks it put people in. Most of my issues with the main character can be excused by her being 17. She's indecisive and unfocused, and doesn't seem to have a very strong presence. I liked seeing her through other characters' eyes, it showed more personality. All the other characters are well developed and I understood where they fit in their own stories. Especially Lizette. Luz and Diego have some childhood development, but most other children are treated as a silent backdrop. Sara and Marie Josie are described in contrast to one another, sure, but they don't really get personalities until they're 15. I love seeing how Luz and Diego mirror Sara and Marie Josie as siblings, how their decisions affect which way their lives lead. Shout-out to the crime fighting rattlesnake.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Alcoholism, Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Colonisation

kaitlinlovesbooks's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Blood, and Police brutality

Minor: Alcoholism, Misogyny, and Sexual harassment

pages_with_panda's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

4.0

 “We cannot know the depths of another’s sacrifice,”

This could be your loss. But it’s not. It’s mine, and you might think you’re lucky, but for every lucky person, unluckiness arrives. Our existence shouldn’t depend on luck. It should depend on justice, what is good, what is right.

A slow-paced, character driven story of five generations of a a Mexican/Indigenous family in Denver Colorado.

I really liked the back and forth between generations! It took a second for it to make sense and it was non-linear but I liked being able to connect the stories and characters.

I wanted to cry near the end for what happened to the family. Every generation had their own world-shattering problem and it was so personal.

I felt the ending was a bit abrupt though and I would’ve liked more details, but the last sentence was beautiful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Death of parent, and Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Rape, and Abortion

leio_vaasi_read's review against another edition

adventurous informative mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Abandonment, and Classism

yadira315's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.5

Unfortunately, I didn’t really enjoy this book. They were several things that I did not like. I am not a fan of dual timelines because to me, it feels like the story is constantly being interrupted. The characters lacked depth and I would have like to see Luz get more development, especially with her magic. I also felt that the plot didn’t really have a lot of development and it was lacking on connecting the stories and making it cohesive, leaving me feeling uninterested. I didn’t like the love interests that we were presented with in this book and the character that I did enjoy the most which was Diego, I wanted to see more of as his story was interesting that fell short. The author did have some beautiful prose and touched a lot on the realities that we still face today. The ending of the book was too abrupt and left me not feeling connected to the characters. 

Content warning: Gun violence, racism, Death of a parent,

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Racism