Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Year of Wonders, by Geraldine Brooks

5 reviews

s_mivsek's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Child death, and Sexual content

Minor: Drug use, Excrement, Murder, and Self harm

rld1727's review

2.75

This book was a weird ride. I didn’t love it, but I stuck around because I had read reviews of how the plot goes kind of haywire later on in the book - it does, indeed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Physical abuse, Vomit, Sexism, Death, Medical content, Blood, Child death, Violence, Death of parent, Medical trauma, and Grief

kianga_black's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Misogyny, Child abuse, Abortion, Death, Emotional abuse, Murder, Medical content, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Sexism, Violence, Child death, Classism, Death of parent, and Blood

mrremi's review against another edition

medium-paced

3.0

This isn't my normal type of book, so if I liked historical fiction more maybe my rating would be higher.  I kind of just pushed through in the beginning because I'm reading for a reading challenge and I refused to give up.  But it wasn't as interesting and action packed as my usual fantasy books.  However, it did grow on me more and my goodness so many things happened over the course of the year.  Anna is a very strong woman but the most interesting part of her story to me was what happened in the epilogue honestly.  But I guess that it took her growth within this year to allow her to get to that different side of her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Abortion, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Child death, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Violence, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, and Drug use

aliceonpaper's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Violence, and Grief