Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

Nimona by ND Stevenson

28 reviews

littlebutton's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This is a very queer graphic novel, although not necessarily in terms of explicit representation. While

Blackwell and Goldenloin are depicted as former lovers and implied to get back together at the end

, that’s all it really is: implied. I’d argue it’s more text than subtext, but it’s still subtle enough that I could see someone missing it. 

Nimona though. That girl is queer as hell. I mean, really the whole comic is. But not in the “two people of the same gender kissed!” way. More so in the “Stevenson’s own queer identity was obviously integral to the development of the themes here and any interpretation of the story that didn’t take that into account would be deeply missing the point”. Also, Nimona herself changes into male forms and seems to identity with them. It’s queer. Plus the whole

monster

thing. Suuuuper fucking queer. 

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go reread the ending and think about

manifestations of abuse.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Torture, Police brutality, and Medical trauma

penofpossibilities's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Police brutality, and Murder

Moderate: Violence and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Child death and Injury/Injury detail

lab experiments on people

annablume's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

3.0

Nice little Story, nothing groundbreaking but good

has some pandemic themes

also kinda stranger things/elfenlied elements

Ending was meh

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Animal death, Blood, and Police brutality

lizzie24601's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Blood

sporemiette's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Medical content, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Confinement, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Police brutality

notabookseller's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny fast-paced

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

4.75

i would give it a five but the ending made me a lil sad you should still read it tho

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Child abuse, Police brutality, Medical content, and Medical trauma

book_snail's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-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

This is one of my all-time favourite books, and quite honestly changed my life. It has a diverse cast of characters, it employs a lot of trope-flipping that turns out to be really thought-provoking, and the relationships in the story are just *chef's kiss* so deep. It's a wonderful book; please read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality

Moderate: Ableism, Homophobia, Blood, and Medical trauma

Minor: Torture, Vomit, and Grief

Most of the triggering content in this book is fairly mild; the only explicit thing is the police brutality. Any triggering content is done tastefully, and while I'm usually triggered by all of the above, it didn't really upset me.

oddduck's review against another edition

fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism