Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill

4 reviews

avisreadsandreads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Murder

Moderate: Vomit and Pregnancy

raaahella's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

An amazing book that I am so glad to have read. This is a book I would watch if there was a movie. 
Aminata was amazing and so many horrible things happened to her and she survived. She is a very inspirational person and I am sorry to have not found out what ever happened to her son. I enjoyed the relationship she had with May. Though Chekura was a very unique person in all he suffered through and for some poor choices in his youth. 

It was very interesting to hear how she ended up in England and Africa again too. And hearing about the start of the abolitionists and how they started the movement is interesting. It was terrible how the Witherspoons were very much the white savior type. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery and Violence

Moderate: Rape

Minor: War

loxeletters's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Medical content, and Death of parent

trinityjoy_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail