Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

Squire by Sara Alfageeh, Nadia Shammas

7 reviews

rainbowrocky's review against another edition

adventurous reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Ableism, Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Blood, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

frantic_vampire's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

This should be required reading for EVERYONE. I need more people to read this because it was such a gut punch and I’m just here trying to make sense of all the things I read. There is just so much packed into this graphic novel that it’s hard to get my thoughts in order to make a coherent review. Especially when my thoughts were just a revolving door of “WTF?!”, “holy shit!”, and “colonialism is an absolute bitch”. Seriously, my inner monologue was one giant swear word generator the entire time I was reading. Squire is honestly one of the most eye opening stories I’ve ever read and it’s getting a solid five stars. Please, please read this!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Grief, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Hate crime

kajoreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective 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? Yes

3.5

Pros:

• The story deals with important topics and portrays them well.
• The art conveys mood very effectively.
• The outfit designs are gorgeous and detailed.
• All the beautifully illustrated horses and camels (dromedaries?)
• The chapter where the characters wrote letters home had a cinematic quality I really liked.

Cons:

• I found some of the more action-heavy scenes a bit hard to follow.
• I wasn’t able to get fully immersed (but that’s the case with most graphic novels, so it’s probably more of a me problem)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Hate crime, Blood, and Police brutality

princessrory's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring 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

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

Minor: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Grief

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

adventurous 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Hate crime, Racism, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Toxic friendship, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism

some_random_person_hi's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful informative sad

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

4.0

 With the section 'Squire and History' at the end of the graphic novel bc my reading comprehension is poor enough to be mostly unable to pick up on subtext unless if someone points them out to me as added context, the themes were really well executed and the storyline is quite well done. The characters also did stuff/ reacted in ways that made sense and the art popped off the page. A sequel would be really cool. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Murder, Abandonment, and War

Minor: Ableism, Bullying, and Grief

rnbhargava's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing 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? Yes

4.0

I really loved this book with its Middle East (Jordan I believe specifically) setting and the protagonist from an ethnicity that’s thought of as “the enemy”. The characters are nuanced and not all are what they seem. The characterizations are all spot on. The main fault with this book is that it kind of wraps up a bit too fast. At least there’s a tease for a potential sequel. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Islamophobia, Trafficking, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

This book has all of these themes but does it all in a fairly most ages friendly way. Think of the sensibility of a show like “Avatar: The Last Airbender”