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Her Name Is Knight by Yasmin Angoe

40 reviews

rbjennings's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

franksreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Incest, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Classism

cmbohn's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Great story, but so many triggers. Very dark. Still, I want to read the next one and see what happens to Nena. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Slavery, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Incest, Infertility, Racial slurs, Racism, and Vomit

Minor: Pregnancy

pineapple919's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

The dual perspectives & narration is *chef's kiss*
As you learn who MC is, you learn who she was and how she came to be.

The author explores topics like rape, genocide, slavery juxtaposed against love, family, justice, and forgiveness. I was crying at the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism

Minor: Infertility, Medical content, and Pregnancy

shay_janae's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.75

 This story was on some Tarantino style violence and I love Nena as this highly trained woman who overcame the worst the society has to offer. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Rape, Slavery, and Murder

khcdvm09's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, and Murder

keandres's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Rape, Death of parent, and Murder

meganmustachebeard's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Rape, Sexual violence, and Murder

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Incest

linda48's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Death of parent, and Murder

rinku's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Her Name Is Knight is a really brutal and dark book which gets 3.5 stars from me. I liked the idea behind it a lot and found Nena to be an interesting character, but the violence was sometimes a bit too much for me, and some moments were a bit too predictable. This book includes many triggering topics, like graphic (sexual) violence and death of parents, so please only read this book if you’re in the right headspace for it. 

Nena is an assassin, working for the Tribe, an organization that fights for African countries and diaspora. I find this concept just really intriguing and it’s more morally grey which I liked. On one of her missions, she sees a man she has terrible past with and decides that she wants her revenge. The story is told in two timelines; we see this present time story but also a past timeline where we see how Nena became an assassin. This past of Nena is very brutal and disturbing, and it’s so terrible to think about the fact that these kinds of things probably happen in reality as well. The present timeline is not less shocking and brutal, so be prepared. It was so intense how

she shoots the “wrong” guy

. Besides this, I liked the feminist undertones the story has, like Nena rejecting the term “female” for women, and the thematization of colonialism. 

My biggest issue with this novel was how predictable the plot became towards the end. It was so obvious that

Paul is the father of Elin’s boyfriend. I didn’t really understand why Nena didn’t just kill him right there when she’s so ruthless. It was also kinda predictable that the bad guys would kidnap Georgia.

. What shocked me though was the reveal that

that Oliver is her brother. Cort’s and Nena’s breakup was sad but also understandable

. I also loved how emotional the final chapter was. 

Nena is a really interesting character and also kinda likable. The struggle of her different identities is quite intense: On the one hand, she talks about killing like it’s nothing but on the other hand, she’s focussed on protecting the weak people. I also think that Nena’s trauma was depicted quite well. Besides this, the cast is all Black which was great. Georgia is such a great addition to the cast and Cort is so likable as well. 

All in all, Her Name is Knight is a thriller that deals with topics not every thriller does, and has some interesting characters that I can’t wait to read more about. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Infertility, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Torture, and Vomit

Minor: Pregnancy