Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

Squire by Sara Alfageeh, Nadia Shammas

71 reviews

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Violence, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

bluberrybooks's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring relaxing tense 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? N/A

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Xenophobia, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: War

sophiesmallhands's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Colonisation

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Police brutality, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Death, War, 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

elliya's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation

Moderate: Racial slurs, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Minor: Blood

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

lncolgate's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

Beautiful, dynamic art. Love a story about girls with swords. I felt the art and narrative worked together perfectly to tell a story with adventure and danger and mixing in personal identity and growth. It also explored themes of war and colonialism and what history is. Ending left me wanting more. I felt one chapter closed but another should be beginning for Aiza and her friends. I want more! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Colonisation, and War

midslibrary's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing 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, Blood, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: War

autisticbucky's review

adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Xenophobia, and War

Moderate: Violence and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Colonisation

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