Reviews tagging 'Death'

Ilegal by Andrew Donkin, Eoin Colfer

18 reviews

robinks's review against another edition

informative sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

The story and characters are gripping, especially “Journey” at the end. While a work of fiction, there is a lot to be learned about the difficulties and trauma migrants face in journeying to a new place. However, it doesn’t feel right to me that it was written and illustrated by 3 white men…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Alcoholism, Confinement, Miscarriage, Trafficking, War, and Deportation

hmbk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Gun violence, Grief, Murder, and War

Minor: Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Blood, and Death of parent

greenlivingaudioworm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Death, Violence, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Abandonment

thereaderfriend's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Bullying, Trafficking, and Grief

Minor: Alcoholism, Medical content, and Death of parent

emilysbookishlife's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

lalu's review against another edition

informative sad

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

2.75

Maybe graphic novels aren't for me...
I couldn't connect with the characters at all, the things they said were written in a rather unnatural way with simple, short and emotionless sentences. It was almost like reading a Wikipedia article as a graphic novel: interesting, but written in a very sober way.
It made me grateful for the life I live as a European and it pains me to think about all the refugees who to this day risk (and way too often lose) their lives for the chance to a better and safer live - but the characters of the story made me feel nothing. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Trafficking

Minor: Medical content

bookishandlegal's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

This graphic novel is mandatory reading! It is SO good and such a good depiction of what immigrants go through as they seek out a better place to live. The graphics are beautiful and I loved that the story switched between the current journey (on the boat to Europe) and the journey Ebo took from Ghana to find his brother. Ebo was such a sweet character and just always a ray of light and hope even when things looked pretty hopeless for him and his friends. This book was heartbreaking, but also so important for people to read and understand.  Seriously, amazing, go read this asap. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Trafficking, and War

tinytrashqueen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Trafficking, and Grief

Moderate: Bullying and Abandonment

Minor: Alcoholism and Death of parent