Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

Murambi, the Book of Bones by Boubacar Boris Diop

5 reviews

firgreen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Violence, and War

hbelle01's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

This hurt to read. I have read about the Rwandan Genocide before, but this hit so many perspectives and aspects of the genocide. It’s beautiful but deeply emotional and painful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide

Moderate: Rape

purplehulk713's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

Hauntingly sweet and chilling, like a graveyard echo. The complexity of each richly developed narrator provides exquisite insight into the humanity of EVERY player in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Siméon’s insights towards the very end are intense and incredible, as well as Cornelius’s ultimate journey towards the acceptance of his legacy in regard to the genocide. This land of a thousand hills sings with a different sound of music, but it is a dirge that demands to be echoed in the hearts and minds of all—the people who turned away and the people who could choose to make these mistakes again or listen to the history inked in blood in the earth around them. I do not simply mean women and men of Rwanda. Don’t deny the truth because you are afraid of it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

noahsingh's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

just finished reading and can't think of anything to say except I can't remember the last time I've read a book that felt this important

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

apollonium's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gore, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and War

Moderate: Child death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Excrement, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail