Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Dagar utan slut by Sebastian Barry

11 reviews

dahlialover's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad 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

4.25

Harrowing tale of two men and their lives spent during the early settlement of the United States. A bloody story about the slaughter of American Indians and then the civil war but softened by the caring, contemplative nature of the main character Thomas McNulty and his love for John Cole. Desperately sad in places. Provides what I imagine is a real outlook on how miserable and difficult their lives were then. Not necessarily a joy to read but Sebastian Barry’s writing is exceptional 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Gun violence, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Murder, Colonisation, and War

maddummel's review against another edition

dark 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? No

2.25

Zupełnie czegoś innego spodziewałam się po tej książce. 85% to opisy brutalnego ludobójstwa i wojny, które do niczego nie prowadzą. Niestety parę tych rozdziałów, które bardziej skupiały się na życiu głównego bohatera nie były na tyle dobre, żeby książkę uratować. A szkoda, bo koncept generalnie nie był zły.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Murder, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Child death, Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, and Kidnapping

Minor: Ableism, Slavery, Torture, and Pandemic/Epidemic

lolatarantula's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

I cant talk about this book for a myriad of reasons because it's a good fucking book in the same way Blood Meridian is a good book. Like, it's an amazing book but I don't think many people would enjoy this book. Anyway, look up the warnings before you read this. It isn't for everyone. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

shearfeather's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racism, Violence, and Colonisation

streetmuseums's review against another edition

sorry but i don't want to read a white irish man writing about indigenous people in this way. so fucking weird 

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Content Warnings

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

marxxx's review against another edition

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.75

most of this book left me sitting with a weird discomfort—the narrator and his partner are both complicit in a lot of really heinous things, and violence against Black and Indigenous people abounds. but I found it informative, and found the discomfort to be something worth examining, and the end of the book made me cry. 

The writing style takes some getting used but it adds something very unique and personal to the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Violence, Excrement, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

sanfordc11's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Violence, and Colonisation

veronicats's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Confinement, Deadnaming, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual assault, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Abandonment, and Alcohol

friends2lovers's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Violence, Murder, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Excrement

lavendl's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Child death, Sexual assault, Vomit, Grief, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cannibalism and Alcohol