Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

If I Tell You the Truth by Jasmin Kaur

5 reviews

333amreen's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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

What a poetically devastating novel this was! I never read anything like this. Something with poems and proses and visuals that pull you in so deep! Truly unforgettable!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Classism, Deportation, and Pandemic/Epidemic

guessgreenleaf's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Grief, Pregnancy, Outing, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Deportation

Moderate: Alcoholism and Abortion

Minor: Body shaming, Confinement, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Classism

menomica's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

it is an act of bravery to live through hell and run from it when we have been made to believe that running is far more dangerous than staying

What I really appreciate about this book is that it talks about trauma at length without feeling gratuitous. I love Sahaara and Kiran’s relationship. They love and support each other through everything. Even though they have their spats, they’re still their for each other at the end of the day.

I will say, I kinda hoped that Jeevan and Shaara would just stay friends, but I don’t hate where they landed. I like how they were open with each other and understanding of where they were individually.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Xenophobia, Police brutality, and Pregnancy

Minor: Violence

erinsbookshelves's review

challenging emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Racism, Police brutality, and Grief

Minor: Abortion and Death of parent

mariakureads's review

challenging emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

This was a hard book - not to finish but to start and accept it as a realistic fiction since it covers so many realistic triggers and sometimes with so much emotion that it felt honest and real.

Right from the beginning Kaur tells you that this could be triggering by providing a page listing for the reader at the beginning. That set up the book in a way that others with a similar topic haven't - The warning made me conscious that I was choosing to move forward and read this and I did and I found that after I got past the slow build up, it was an intense story of survival, endurance, heartbreak, love and family told through a combination of prose, poetry and art.

It's a powerful story of a mother and daughter, alternating between their viewpoints to highlight their dynamic and the world around them as it weaves between a mother's past and her daughters present to tell their story. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Police brutality, and Grief

Minor: Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent