Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris

12 reviews

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Violence, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and War

rachel101's review against another edition

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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Genocide, Hate crime, Blood, and Grief

Minor: Genocide, Hate crime, Infidelity, Racism, Rape, Grief, Medical trauma, and War

arayo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, and War

Moderate: Infidelity, Violence, Xenophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

jennikreads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Infidelity, Racism, Violence, Excrement, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape

brynpemery's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Infidelity and Xenophobia

jo_d's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring sad fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racism, Violence, Blood, Vomit, and War

Moderate: Infidelity

viktoriakffnk's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective 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

Best book I have read in a long while. Absolutly heartbreaking

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Violence, and War

minniepauline's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense fast-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

I couldn’t put this novel down. Set at the beginning of the war in Sarajevo in the Spring of 1992, it’s propulsive in a way that the war feels to the characters. One day it’s unbelievable and then suddenly you’re in the midst and bombs are falling. It’s claustrophobic at times, at times hopeful. There is beauty and pathos. The novel is written in a very close third person, present-tense, and I felt as though I was in the action, experiencing everything that Zora did. Given what is going on in the world today, this feels like a necessary book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Infidelity, Violence, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Islamophobia and Religious bigotry

bookbinbaby's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense 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? No

3.5

A world I would not know or recognise myself, but an insight to what other people do experience when war installs itself in their homes, villages, towns, countries and lives. Emotionally shattering as you see Zora's world ravaged and turned upside down by powers outside her control but having a very real and increasing impact on her life and those around her, and showing how when environments change unexpectedly what it can do to a person/people. Harrowing to read in most parts, but you're carried along as Zora and her small tight knit community look after one another and try and maintain their sense of community and self expression in times of hostility, uncertainty and senseless violence, as best they can. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and War

Moderate: Child death, Death, Violence, Xenophobia, Excrement, Vomit, Islamophobia, Grief, Medical trauma, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infidelity and Rape

ciaomara's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Violence, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Infidelity, Grief, Mass/school shootings, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Rape