Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

25 reviews

taylormoore's review

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Death

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Alcohol and Colonisation

livlamentloathe's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-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

I didn’t know what to expect cause I’d not heard much about this before I borrowed the audiobook but I really liked it! I enjoyed learning about Cree culture and how important family is.

I also appreciated that Jolee’s pronouns weren’t ever explained. They used they/them and they were Mackenzie’s best friend and that’s all that mattered. 

A great, twisty monster story about greed and family and loss.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, and Cancer

katiewhocanread's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Grief

Moderate: Death, Terminal illness, and Colonisation

Minor: Alcoholism and Drug use

kswartz's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Blood

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

laurenkimoto's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.25

I’m just going to be sitting here thinking about this book and its use of symbolism and language for the next 10-14 business days

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Genocide, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Colonisation

amandas_bookshelf's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Alcohol

emma_b_rhodes's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Child death and Cannibalism

Minor: Colonisation

foldingthepage_kayleigh's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Alcoholism

shadestate's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

What a wonderful, raw exploration of grief, community, and guilt. How avoiding deep pain doesn't make it disappear. It just gets a chance to linger and fester. I loved how Mackenzie, the main character, was deeply flawed. 

Anxious, avoidant, pushing people away because she feels like a burden. Unable to ask for help. Falling into the trap that pretending you're okay is the same as not making your loved ones worried. Yet still loved by her family and friends. Because we all have our flaws, the bad. 

 

A five of cups book at its core. Definitely want to reread this late October, when I think the pages will speak even more than they did now, at the start of spring. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Grief, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Racism, and Death of parent

Minor: Body horror, Sexism, Murder, and Sexual harassment

spineofthesaurus's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism, Cannibalism, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Colonisation