Reviews tagging 'War'

Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin

19 reviews

phoevincent's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Child death

Moderate: Murder, Grief, and Racism

Minor: War and Rape

snapshotsofabookishlass's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Racism, Death, Rape, Death of parent, Child death, Trafficking, and War

sarahsthoughtsonbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

4.5

I think I spent a good portion of the book not understanding it. Not sure where all the narrative parts were going and how things went together. However soon the interstitials tied together, and helped shift my perspective.

There's so much trauma to deal with, but there's also a bit of joy. Being lost, and wondering if the correct decisions were made. Possibly being mad at fate.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Genocide, Colonisation, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Police brutality, Racism, Torture, Violence, Bullying, Racial slurs, War, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Car accident and Pandemic/Epidemic

lena_and_her_books's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Trafficking, Sexual violence, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Alcoholism, Hate crime, Racism, War, Racial slurs, and Rape

ameliasbooks's review against another edition

sad medium-paced

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

3.0

I couldn't really get into the structure of the book. It was an interesting story, but it kept me at a distance and it didn't really come together. For me it wasn't able to really draw a picture, because it stayed too much on the surface of everything. But it isn't a bad book by any means, I just needed a bit more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Child death, Death, Xenophobia, Grief, and Trafficking

Moderate: War and Racism

alexhaydon's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Trafficking

Moderate: War, Child death, Death of parent, and Death

seonaidrogers's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Child death, War, and Racism

barbarella85's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: War

bendercath's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.25

Achingly beautiful and sad, this book makes the journey of this Vietnamese family so very exceedingly real. I was impressed by how deeply the author explored their journey through many decades and at such a variety of points. It fully detailed each phase of their experience. The prose was beautiful and made the physical spaces and emotional states come alive for me. I was not expecting such a contemporary finish … and at the end, this proved to be very grounding to have the ending right in the present. So moving. Thank you, Cecile Pin.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and War

4morris4's review against another edition

touching, complex, emotional story. really wish I had skipped the short chapter on COVID though, it felt so rushed and unexplored

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Child death, War, Trafficking, and Death of parent