Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Broken Wings by Kahlil Gibran

8 reviews

dragonlilly's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

This is both a love story and a social commentary on arranged marriage and the power of rich religious leaders. The story also explores the lives of women and the little care that is taken at times to understand women, especially through a lens of misogyny and that discussion was quite interesting and thoughtful. The topic of the couple's adultery is also explored and somewhat described as both adultery and not adultery at the same time, because Salma is forced to marry due to the religious and social power others have over her, which to the couple effectively makes the marriage false because while a contract was made, it was not true in the heart of Salma or our main character. Overall, I greatly admired the discussions our main couple had, and how much truth and wisdom was ingrained in them. In general I admire Gibran's wisdom as a whole. The writing was beautiful, but at times it was a bit too flowery and complicated, and this definitely caused me to not connect with the characters emotionally until the very last section of the story where I became deeply moved for our characters. There were still tons of moments where I loved the flowery writing, even though reading it was challenging, and I could see a lot of inspiration from the Song of Solomon within the sections on love, which I thought was perfect for this poetic story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infertility, Grief, and Death of parent

dontwanthvn's review against another edition

emotional inspiring lighthearted

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Death of parent

slgy's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Misogyny and Sexism

Minor: Child death and Death of parent

ashlikes's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Racial slurs, and Death of parent

Moderate: Infertility, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Trafficking, and War

bookishfaye's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

Tbh this might just be the most beautiful story I ever have the privilege of reading in my entire life. The fact that this is likely an autobiographical account of Gibran hurts so much more & my heart aches rn 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Abandonment

mengzhenreads's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

Incredible writing paired with a tragic love story that despite it's short length, packed a huge punch and is definitely a book that I want to read again to annotate and mark down all my favorite quotes because oh my god, the WRITING was just stunning.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Miscarriage, and Death of parent

Moderate: Death and Emotional abuse

Minor: Misogyny

amaie's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Death of parent

ben_cross1110's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Miscarriage, and Death of parent

Moderate: Emotional abuse