Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri

18 reviews

charnyreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Murder, Rape, War, Violence, Blood, and Classism

jennifershepherd's review against another edition

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

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Death, Deportation, Sexual assault, Child death, Child abuse, Mental illness, and Grief

poppyhotchkiss's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Child abuse

leoniefnk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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

4.0

The last quarter of the book saves the slow/confusing beginning.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child death, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Self harm, War, and Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Confinement, Death, Rape, Pedophilia, and Child abuse

helliepad's review against another edition

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, War, Violence, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Police brutality, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Genocide, Gun violence, Islamophobia, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Rape, and Sexism

fsb95's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

4.0

A gripping insight into the reality of refugees, with complex characters to fall in love with. The author brings the varied settings to life, perfectly balancing scene-setting and plot progression with the intriguing though often troubled thoughts of the unreliable narrator.

The only thing I didn’t enjoy so much was that the author opted for the flashback, flashforward style of narration, where chapters alternate between the past and the present. I’m not in love with that narrative style at the best of times; but with this book in particular I felt it got in the way of things.

The fictitious nature of Mohammed in particular would have worked much better had the story been fully chronological, because the surreal nature of Nuri’s interactions with an imaginary Mohammed in the “present” made me suspect practically from the get-go that he was never real to begin with.

Overall, though, this book is a page-turner and a must-read for anyone who loves lifelike stories about lives so radically different from our “ordinary”, fortunate lives.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Rape, War, and Trafficking

Minor: Child abuse

lmaccabee's review against another edition

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

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and War

Minor: Trafficking and Child abuse

veganecurrywurst's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-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? Yes

4.75

This book is just so sorrowful and harrowing. It tells the story of Afra and Nuri and how they are forced to flee their home. In contrast to other stories about refugees, this one focuses on the mental trauma that many  refugees and asylum seekers have to deal with (which is often forgotten). The author has such a beautiful writing style.
I hope more people read this book.
We HAVE to create Safe Refuge Routes to Europe.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, War, Death, Trafficking, Grief, Violence, and Mental illness

Moderate: Rape, Xenophobia, Child abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual assault

Minor: Murder

bethanstanleyy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Gun violence, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexual content, War, Islamophobia, Child death, Death, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, and Rape

beataf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense 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

3.0

very emotional, dark, personal novel on the journey of one syrian couple who become refugees. i really liked being exposed to this perspective, and i learned a lot, but i think its not the strongest writing overall

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Trafficking, Mental illness, Grief, and Sexual assault

The characters are refugees of a brutal war and go on a brutal journey to escape, so they see and experience many horrible things - expect accordingly.