Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

10 reviews

laindarko2's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Blood, Colonisation, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Grief, Violence, Death, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Animal death, War, Xenophobia, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, and Adult/minor relationship

dxlltopia's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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: Mental illness, Violence, Cursing, Death, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, War, Alcoholism, and Torture

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Body shaming, Cultural appropriation, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Sexual assault, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Colonisation, Classism, Rape, Trafficking, Racism, Physical abuse, Animal death, Sexual content, and Misogyny

Minor: Genocide, Drug abuse, Colonisation, Vomit, Dementia, Medical content, Car accident, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, and Animal death

margaretahall's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Torture, War, Addiction, Violence, and Racism

Moderate: Vomit, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Gun violence, Grief, Sexual harassment, Murder, Excrement, Sexual content, and Religious bigotry

pallasreads's review against another edition

challenging hopeful reflective 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? No

5.0

Weaves different threads of stories together beautifully 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Addiction

Moderate: Blood, Sexual content, War, and Racism

lonnahroyale's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious 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? No

3.75

Such interesting views of Indigenous religion, eye opening to what colonization has done to Indians but also takes the stance on not treating American Indians like the victims. Really really loved this, it has haunted me for a while.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Animal death, Racism, Rape, Alcoholism, Blood, Death, Addiction, and Torture

helenasiuzmu's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Colonisation, Death, Forced institutionalization, Racism, Sexual content, Alcoholism, and Violence

b0ygenius's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Colonisation, Cursing, Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Alcohol, Medical trauma, Murder, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Blood, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and War

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, and Misogyny

Minor: Gun violence and Car accident

lynnannwalsh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Racial slurs, Colonisation, Physical abuse, Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Forced institutionalization, and Mental illness

readingpicnic's review

adventurous hopeful reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Torture, War, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Forced institutionalization and Racism

serendipitysbooks's review

adventurous challenging emotional 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

 Ceremony is an important novel, part of the so-called (at least in white academic circles) first wave of the Native American Renaissance. It incorporates oral traditions and ceremonial practices from the author’s Navajo and Pueblo people. It tells the story of Tayo, who returns from World War II (where he was held as a PoW by the Japanese) suffering from what we now know as PTSD and haunted by memories of seeing his cousin die. Tayo’s also struggling with the renewed reality of racism after earning respect while in uniform as well as feelings of not fully belonging in either the native or white worlds. He initially self-medicates with alcohol but is later sent on a ceremony by a medicine man and it is this which enables him to overcome the trauma of the war. Interwoven with this main storyline is a mythic story of how Hummingbird and Green Bottle Fly saved the Pueblo nation from drought. I appreciated the way the culturally traditional was interwoven with the contemporary, something that was possibly revolutionary for white readers at the time. I was always engaged by the writing, never struggled as the story moved around in time or place, and found the depictions of the landscape to be especially evocative. A modern classic.
 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Panic attacks/disorders