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A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

7 reviews

ktrain3900's review against another edition

challenging dark funny informative reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.5

You don't read this book so much as you experience it. Within the first hundred pages, I almost put it down and added it to my DNF collection. It's a hard world to enter--poverty, misogyny, foul language, racism, classism, explicit violence, casual death, homophobia so omnipresent you feel like you need a new word for it--and for some, it won't be doable (and that's fair). But if you can do it, you'll be rewarded with a rich, layered, albeit brutal, journey through both time and place. You stay for the characters, none of them shining, all suffering in their way, as they try to survive with whatever generally poor hand of cards they've been dealt. Definitely makes me want to read more by the author - the writing is just so well-done. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, and Murder

Minor: Drug abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, and Police brutality

This book is not for anyone easily triggered by any sort of violence or language.

panoptican's review

challenging dark informative 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual harassment, Rape, Mental illness, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Cursing, Trafficking, Misogyny, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Addiction, Racial slurs, Sexism, Physical abuse, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Racism, Bullying, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Torture, Police brutality, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Fire/Fire injury, and Drug use

goofygoober27's review

dark tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Addiction, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Sexual assault, Misogyny, and Rape

alisonburnis's review

dark tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Marlon James is a masterful writer, and this is definitely on show in A Brief History of Seven Killings - I mean, it won the Booker. That said, I wasn’t as into this one as I would have liked. I appreciated the writing but the topic wasn’t one I would have gone for typically. So yay for James getting me to read about Bob Marley, Jamaica, and the crack wars, when I might not have picked this up otherwise. 

This takes place over a handful of days spread across 15 years. It begins with the attempted murder of Bob Marley, referred to as the Singer, in Jamaica, and follows the characters through the aftermath of the attempted murder, to the drug wars of the 1980s, and then into the 1990s. It is a fictionalization of the attempted murder, though some real figures feature. This is a rich, suspenseful story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Racial slurs, Murder, Gun violence, Blood, Drug use, Rape, Torture, Sexual harassment, and Misogyny

eliasiexil's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Gun violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Blood, Child death, Colonisation, Classism, Cursing, Death, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Torture, and Vomit

sunny_not's review

Although the premise was interesting and I wanted to learn and read more, it was super complex there were too many characters and the story just kept on dragging and dragging. Since I picked this book up from a library I had to decide if I really wanted to continue on  or get books that I'm a lot more excited about and I decided to get a new book. I might continue this someday but right now I'm not in the right headspace to read so much triggering stuff and it's such a long and challenging book. Overall probably wouldn't recommend it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexism, Misogyny, Murder, Death, Blood, Child death, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Violence

kimiwriter's review

I really enjoyed this audiobook but once it got to the 79% mark, things slowed down and I needed to move on to other books for my project. I would like to come back to this at some point though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, and Sexual assault